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Quotes by Writer
"There's a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you've terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze."
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"There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped towards new ends."
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"The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish it was not. But it's a lie. I came from a country where race was not an issue, I did not think of myself as black and I only became black when I came to America."
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"There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd."
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"Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse."
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"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."
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"Initiative is doing the right things without being told."
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"Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading."
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"Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective."
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"The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people?Why do some people have to starve, while there are surpluses rotting in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?"
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"I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight."
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"It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration."
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"Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love."
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"I'll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story."
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"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."
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"To Dream The Impossible Dream, Is Something Great We All Should Do."
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"I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural."
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"Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites."
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"Let's pretend it is a threat, because you need to understand that the other officers aren't keeping me safe from you; they're keeping you safe from me."
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"The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable."
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"The first springs of great events like those of great rivers are often mean and little."
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"What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions."
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"The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks."
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"Man's inability to get out of bed in the morning is a curious thing. One may reason with oneself clearly and forcibly without the slightest effect. One knows that delay means inconvenience. Perhaps it may spoil one's whole day. And one also knows that a single resolute heave will do the trick. But logic is of no use. One simply lies there."
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"Mr. Schlubb, the pear-shaped PE teacher, sent us all out to run half a dozen laps around a preposterously enormous cinder track. For the Greenwood kids-all of us white, marshmallowy, innately unphysical, squinting unfamiliarly in the bright sunshine-it was a shock to the system of an unprecedented order."
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"Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper. By refusing to say 'It is,' you are refusing to say 'I am.' By suspending your judgment, you are negating your person. When a man declares: 'Who am I to know?'- he is declaring: 'Who am I to live?"
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"I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites."
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"To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."
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"She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on."
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"Strong determination makes the distination shine."
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"If we fear failure, how then will we handle success?"
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"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."
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"Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam."
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"Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?"
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"Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office."
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