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Quotes by Writer
"Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers."
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"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not."
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"We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die."
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"If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely."
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"Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights.But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora.To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn't complain.What's your excuse?"
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"It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act."
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"Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it."
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"Popularity does not happen overnight with a blink of an eye. It takes time, effort and creative knowledge to reach that particular goal in life."
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"We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!"
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"Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict."
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"Over your breasts of motionless current,over your legs of firmness and water,over the permanence and the prideof your naked hairI want to be, my love, now that the tears arethrowninto the raucous baskets where they accumulate,I want to be, my love, alone with a syllableof mangled silver, alone with a tip of your breast of snow."
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"What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?"
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"Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world."
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"How must it have felt, Pikes, the night they seized your films, like entrails yanked from the camera, out of your guts, clutching them in coils and wads to stuff them up a stove to burn away! Did it feel as bad as having some fifty thousand books annihilated with no recompense? Yes. Yes. Stendahl felt his hands grow cold with the senseless anger."
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"The concept of Free Will makes no sense unless associated, somehow or the other, with Absolute Determinism; it is just as a man cannot walk without gravity arresting and spurring his pace simultaneously."
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"Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen."
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"Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally."
Man,
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"It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills."
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"Get yourself grounded and you can navigate even the stormiest roads in peace."
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"Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself."
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"The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale..."
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"You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you.""I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's pretty bad off, isn't it?"
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"To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted."
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"Stop changing yourself for the sake of other people. You shouldn't care what strangers think and true friends won't ask you to change."
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"Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you."
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"There was never a great man who had not a great mother."
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"Man has the power to act as his own destroyer-and that is the way he has acted through most of his history."
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"You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth."
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"Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic.""
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"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one."
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"The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it."
Man,
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"People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!"
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"Find Great Ways to Be Happy , Stop Feeling Blue."
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"You will learn to make better decisions in life with experience and time."
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"Conquer yourself, the world is you!"
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"Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird."
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"You need not have any motivation but the motivation to overpower your mind."
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"Your perception of reality is not set in stone. It is flexible. If you are willing to work towards changing your perception, you can bend your reality. You can see a more positive life around you. You can see the beauty in the world. If you actively look for the good in the world, eventually your world will change. Look for the little things until the big things come into the picture."
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