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Quotes by Writer
"I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are."
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"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
16
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value."
16
"Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary."
16
"Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit."
16
"The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all."
Will,
16
"Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy."
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"A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it."
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"Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life."
15
"Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more!"
15
"How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?"
15
"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
15
"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment."
15
"In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible."
15
"No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing."
15
"People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life - and for me, for writing as whole. I believe many runners would agree."
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"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
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"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."
15
"Artists think along the edges of the box, because that's where things get done. That's where the audience is, that's where the means of production are available, and that's where you can make an impact."
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"The truth is, there is good and bad in everybody, in every nation, in every race, and in every religion. To hear someone say that all the people that belong to a certain country, race, or religion are bad - is extremely untruthful and makes the person making the statement lose credibility right away. We are all flawed and even nature is flawed. Nobody is perfect, and no country, race or religion is perfect. Duality and polarity are imprinted in everything in nature - in all humans, and even within ourselves. For example, there are those who are ignorant, and those who are wise."
15
"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."
15
"The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him."
15
"A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate."
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"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
15
"A book is a gift you can open again and again."
14
"Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things."
14
"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation."
14
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
14
"So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders."
14
"Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition."
Life,
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"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason."
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