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Quotes by Writer
"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short."
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"In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way."
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"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law."
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"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."
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"As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too."
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"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
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"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."
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"I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest."
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"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They."
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"Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong."
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"Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation."
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"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there."
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"I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet."
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"The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels."
Body,
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"They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit."
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"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
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"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason."
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"Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion."
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"All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense."
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"I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."
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"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot."
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"I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them."
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"It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition."
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"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."
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"How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!"
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