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Quotes by Writer
"Feel the pain. Feel the pleasure. As long as I'm living, I will enjoy every experience that I can. Happiness, glee, passion, peace, fear, pain, I want to feel it all, good or bad. I want to live, not in monotony, in utter craziness. I'm living not dying."
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"Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man."
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"You want me to go back into that house protected by a magic sticky note?"Don't even start, I told him. "It's working. If it weren't working, you couldn't drag me into that place."What did you write on here? 'Don't die'?"No, I wrote, 'Don't be an a-hole!' I headed for the house."On yours or mine?"On yours."Well, in that case, your magic isn't working. I'm still an asshole."
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"Laughing deeply is living deeply."
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"I do not read a book, I hold a conversation with the author."
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"Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things."
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"Sometimes gentle sometimes capricious sometimes awful never the same for two moments together almost human in its passions almost spiritual in its tenderness almost Divine in its infinity."
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"He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier."
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"There is nothing harder to explain than humor."
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"I beg your pardon, one knows exactly what to think."
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"Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels."
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"The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth cant compete. but I dont believe that. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It don't move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. You cant corrupt it because that's what it is."
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"To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches."
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"Butterflies are self propelled flowers."
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"Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't."
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"Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body."
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"If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple."
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"If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism."
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"That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy."
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"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."
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"Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection."
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"You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere."
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"One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things."
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"If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off."
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"Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations."
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"Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos."
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"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings."
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"You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose."
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"To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles."
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"What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading."
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"He left to do whatever editors do."
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"Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal."
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