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Quotes by Writer
"Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank."
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"After Babar's mother was killed by the hunter, he went to the big city."
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"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."
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"In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice."
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"This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America."
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"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up."
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"A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate."
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"It's all a risk. Always. That's not true, actually. The only exception: it's a certainty that there's risk. The safer you play your plans for the future, the riskier it actually is. That's because the world is certainly, definitely, and more than possibly changing."
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"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."
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"Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for."
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"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated."
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"Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer."
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"We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child."
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"If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer."
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"Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?"
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"Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done."
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"People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies."
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"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic."
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"The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."
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"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow."
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"I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society."
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"What happened to me? I asked myself. Morris's high, smoky voice took me back to my university years, when I thought rich people were evil, a shirt and tie were prison clothes, and life without freedom to get up and go - motorcycle beneath you, breeze in your face, down the streets of Paris, into the mountains of Tibet - was not a good life at all. What happened to me?"
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"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
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"A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000."
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"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason."
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