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Quotes by Writer
"I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes."
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"I wasn't always who I am now. No one ever is. I've spent my entire lifetime becoming who I am. Finally, I'm here and I'm old. It's depressing, it really is."
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"The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity."
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"My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit."
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"If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France."
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"Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another."
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"BucketI feel so dreamydreamy lazy, crazy sleepylike I want to be therein the doorway, the doorwayor the porch cornerbe sitting, be emptynotdoing not goingan old bucket left therein the porch corner is like I aman old empty bucket somebody left there."
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"'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth."
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"The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself."
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"Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies."
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"Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship."
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"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."
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"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"
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"I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person."
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"Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be."
Duty,
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"A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy."
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"One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!"
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"Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things."
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"The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job."
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"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."
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"For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against."
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"Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it."
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"Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers."
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"It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong."
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"You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch."
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"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."
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