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Quotes by Writer
"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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"Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start."
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"The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor."
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"They had from an early hour made up their mind that society was, luckily, unintelligent, and the margin allowed them by this had fairly become one of their commonplaces."
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"An authentic and genuine life grows like a sturdy tree. And like a tree, it grows slowly. Every time you make a different and better decision, it grows a little. Every time you choose to do the right thing, even when nobody would find out otherwise, it grows a little. Every time you act with compassion, relinquish your right to strike back, take a courageous stand, admit fault or accept responsibility, it grows a little."
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"There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich."
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"No one knows more about the way you think than you do."
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"Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors."
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"If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge."
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"We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true."
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"You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher."
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"No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else."
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"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits."
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"He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!"
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"You find yourself repeating, 'They grow up so quickly, don't they?' when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me nowadays."
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"The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."
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"Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship."
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"A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse."
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"When men are rightfully occupied then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden."
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"He was always in a sort of fever because he was dropping behind schedule with his daily acts of kindness. However hard he tried, he'd fall behind; and then you would find him prowling about the house, setting such a clip to try and catch up with himself that Easeby was rapidly becoming a perfect hell for man and beast."
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"Bad thing upon bad thing upon bad thing until you can't take anymore, and then it's off to the nearest multistory car park in the family hatchback with a length of rubber tubing. Surely that's fair enough? Surely the coroner's report should read, "He took his own life after sober and careful contemplation of the fucking shambles it had become."
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"I Born as Human its blessing of GOD .But if you die as Human it will be My achievement."
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"In my experience, the ex-military guys came in two types. The first grew long hair, sprouted beards, and indulged in all the things they hadn't been able do while they'd been in the armed forces. The second did their best to pretend they never got out."
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
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"We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that."
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"You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants."
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"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
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"There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol."
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