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Quotes by Writer
"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"
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"Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority."
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"My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul."
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"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."
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"If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place."
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"I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step."
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"I know a man who drives 600 yards to work. I know a woman who gets in her car to go a quarter of a mile to a college gymnasium to walk on a treadmill, then complains passionately about the difficulty of finding a parking space. When I asked her once why she didn't walk to the gym and do five minutes less on the treadmill, she looked at me as if I were being willfully provocative. 'Because I have a program for the treadmill,' she explained. 'It records my distance and speed, and I can adjust it for degree of difficulty.' It hadn't occurred to me how thoughtlessly deficient nature is in this regard."
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"Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills."
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"Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist."
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"We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs."
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"It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry."
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"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."
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"I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even."
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"By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity."
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"I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness."
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"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."
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"I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might."
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"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."
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"If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of 'I could have, I should have'. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete."
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"You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change."
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"That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key."
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"The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them."
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"Don't sit with your back to any doors."
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"So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas."
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"Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it."
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