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Quotes by Writer
"Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it."
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"Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing."
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"I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed."
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"A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition."
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"I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it."
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"I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see."
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"Shit" Bug said, his face sour. "It's that thing again. We've been dealing with it since Pierce. You think you have a lead and then poof" - he made a puffing motion with his fingers - "it melts into nothing and all you have is frustration and the far noise your face makes when you hit you desk with it."Fart.... what?"
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"Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered."
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"Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?"
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"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection."
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"The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas."
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"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."
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"Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it."
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"My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are."
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"They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity."
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"The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers."
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"No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again."
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"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."
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"It has not been a successful life.''No -- it has only been a beautiful one."
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"And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students."
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"Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end."
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"Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation."
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"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."
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"I've been at some pains to tell you about myself because among other reasons I think we should know who our enemies are. I've known people to spend their lives nursing a hatred of phantoms and they were not happy people."
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"They had both wanted it to happen and they both wished it had not, what mattered now was that nobody else should ever know."
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"The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through."
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"I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block."
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"Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available."
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"Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller than his brethren by the breadth of a human fingernail."
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"A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't."
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"The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done."
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"What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place."
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"The arrogance of the human mind is too fragile, as well as the patience of the human character. It is because of that, they fail to see the power of mere observation and systematic analysis."
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