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Quotes by Writer
"In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be."
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"Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like."
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"The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere."
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"We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry."
Joy,
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"The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out."
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"I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life."
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"The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple."
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"Sanely applied advertising could remake the world."
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"One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet."
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"If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance."
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"Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short."
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"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark."
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"It comes over me that I had then a strange alter ego deep down somewhere inside me, as the full-blown flower is in the small tight bud, and I just took the course, I just transferred him to the climate, that blighted him once and for ever."
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"We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!"
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"I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more."
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"Trite though it (used to) sound, real sexuality is about our struggles to connect with one another, to erect bridges across the chasms that separate selves. Sexuality is, finally, about imagination. Thanks to brave people's recognition of AIDS as a fact of life, we are beginning to realize that highly charged sex can take place in all sorts of ways we'd forgotten or neglected-in a conversational nuance; in a body's posture, a certain pressure in a held hand. Sex can be everywhere we are, all the time."
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"There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another-if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't."
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"Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?"
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"What was the constant? Movement. Yes. With time there was always movement. The setting sun. The dripping water. Thependulums. The spilling sand. To realize his destiny, such movement had to cease. He had to stop the flowof time completely."
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"Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person."
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"Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be."
Time,
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"I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive."
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"When nothing seems to be going right, take a break. Clear your head and give yourself some time to rest. Then try again. Rinse and repeat. Over and over again until you see the results you want. Take your time off as a time to change your perspective, as a time to find a solution to your problem. With hard work and dedication, any problem can be solved. Don't expect instant results with no work, expect small successes and many failures that will build up to become your dreams."
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"Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership."
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"Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up."
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"Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die."
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"Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?"- Elizabeth Bennet."
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"I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them."
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