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Quotes by Writer
"Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes."
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"The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind."
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"And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet."
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"I love you.''Yeah, well...''You make my heart want to beat.''That's nice and creepy. But I'm with Fletcher.(...) Also, these proclamations of your undying love for me are getting kind of... it's a bit much to be honest. Just hold back a little.''But my love for you is eternal.''That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about."
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"I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things."
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"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own."
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"I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland."
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"I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world."
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"The children laughing without knowing why - isn't that beautiful?"
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"To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of."
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"One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible."
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"Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term."
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"Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again."
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"An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated."
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"The first condition for making music is not to make a noise."
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"A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason."
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"Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors."
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"Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck."
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"I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all."
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"The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague."
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"Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change."
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"Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation."
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"The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms which are in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design, in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with a sudden wondrous poetry."
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"If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment."
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"One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism."
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"Never place your happiness in someone else's hands because if they walk away, so does your happiness."
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"If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state."
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"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me."
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"Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents."
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