"Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them."
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"What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you."
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"Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person"
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"Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes."
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"In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens."
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"I'm really happy, and beating Marc [Marquez] at the very last chicane gives me an extra boost."
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"My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights."
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"If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically."
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"One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact into a comment. It is impossible to give mere fact without establishing point of view."
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"Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust."
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"Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion."
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"Commentating, illustrating, description giving, adjective expert, analyzing, surmising musical myth seeking people of the universe, this is yours."
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"But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship and the sympathy Of one about to reach her journey's end."
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"You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster."
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"A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give."
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"Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic."
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"I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth."
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"Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give."
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"Give what You command and command what You will."
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"Such platitudes as "If you believe it, it will happen," "If you give 100%, you get 100%," "Good things happen to good people" people utter when we don't know what else to say. There's comfort in platitudes, and every so often they're accurate, but mainly they're hollow words. It's a sign of how little we're able to directly address the world around us. The language of the times reveals our avoidance."
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