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Quotes by Writer
"Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?"
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"Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room."
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"You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence."
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"The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal."
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"An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm."
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"The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience."
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"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less."
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"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."
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"Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization."
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"Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them."
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"I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself."
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"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes."
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"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant."
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"The second whiskey is always my favorite. From the third on, it no longer has any taste. It's just something to pour into your stomach."
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"For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them."
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"The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair."
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"When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split."
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"There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance."
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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
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"Lakewalker legends say the gods abandoned the world when the first malice came. And that they will return when the earth is entirely cleansed of its spawn. If you believe in gods.''Do you?''I believe they are not here, yes. It's a faith of sorts."
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"I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it."
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"He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart."
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"The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger."
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"Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen."
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"We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure."
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"Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess."
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"But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now whenever that young man looked he looked like a sheep I take back all is this morning. It is genuine."
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"It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions."
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