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Quotes by Writer
"We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be."
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"Do you note the peculiar construction of the sentence-'This account of you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian could not have written that. It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs."
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"Having solved all the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe except for his own, three times over, [Marvin] was severely stuck for something to do, and had taken up composing short dolorous ditties of no tone, or indeed tune. The latest one was a lullaby."
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"Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride."
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"For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970."
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"I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary."
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"Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old."
Old,
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"I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things."
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"And whether consciously or not, you must be in many a heart enthroned: queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond, which bows itself, and will forever bow, before the myrtle crown, and the stainless scepter of womanhood."
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"Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration."
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"The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die."
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"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it."
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"Never put aside what you can do today. If you keep pushing your responsibilities to the side, one day they will catch up in unfavorable ways. Just do a little bit every day. If you are consistent, you will get the results you want."
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"It went automatically to a heavy-weight mother with beetling eyebrows who looked as if she had just come from doing a spot of knitting at the foot of the guillotine."
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"Be your own self. Love what YOU love."
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"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."
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"Let him who desires peace prepare for war."
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"When the train stopped, when she got off and heard the concrete of the platform under her heels, she felt light, lifted, impelled to action. She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt."
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"The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes."
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"Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives."
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"Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it."
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"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."
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"There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction."
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