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Quotes by Writer
"A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself."
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"As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are."
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"The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness."
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"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
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"The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls."
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"Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning."
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"I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style."
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"Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?"
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"In existential mathematics that experience takes the form of two basic equations: The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory, the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting."
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"The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions."
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"I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards."
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"I may not understand, but I am willing to admire."
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"It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words."
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"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful."
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"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason."
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"I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent."
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"I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is."
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"Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper."
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"If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come."
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"Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic."
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"I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil."
Evil,
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"Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world."
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"Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them."
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"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
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