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Quotes by Writer
"Right, well, we've got to work out what we need. We've got to work out what we need, how we get it, and what we need to get to get what we need."
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"I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer."
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"The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good."
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"Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear."
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"For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?"
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"Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie."
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"You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher."
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"If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow."
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"To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat."
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"Doctors tend to enter the arenas of their profession's practice with a brisk good cheer that they have to then stop and try to mute a bit when the arena they're entering is a hospital's fifth floor, a psych ward, where brisk good cheer would amount to a kind of gloating. This is why doctors on psych wards so often wear a vaguely fake frown of puzzled concentration, if and when you see them in fifth-floor halls. And this is why a hospital M.D.--who's usually hale and pink-cheeked and poreless, and who almost always smells unusually clean and good--approaches any psych patient under this care with a professional manner somewhere between bland and deep, a distant but sincere concern that's divided evenly between the patient's subjective discomfort and the hard facts of the case."
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"Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do."
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"In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth."
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"Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive."
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"It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people."
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"If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it."
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"Calm sailing doesn't come from calm waters, it comes from having a good navigator; a good crew and a good vessel."
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"The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued."
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"A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her."
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"I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early."
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"When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view."
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"People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence."
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"How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?"
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"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy."
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"And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others. And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about."
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"The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring."
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"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."
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"My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity."
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"Imagination is but another name for super intelligence."
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"Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind."
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"I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix."
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"A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover."
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"Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with."
Love,
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"Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature."
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