"Trump affects the world in a major way."
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"My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench."
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"I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good."
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"Oh won't you stay Stay a while with your own ones Don't ever stray Stray so far from your own ones 'Cause the world is so cold Don't care nothing for your soul That you share with your own ones."
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"There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read."
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"Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world."
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"You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day."
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"Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend."
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"For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines - some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege - I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words."
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"I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that."
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"Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark."
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"Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed."
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"A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest."
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"For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it."
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"...the still point in a turning world."
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"Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?"
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"In some ways, Valiant Gentlemen grows out of Tales of the New World, my collection of short stories about explorers who lived "great" lives, but whose experience of it was in the same register as all our lives are - we feel the same extent of human emotion regardless of how exceptional our actions are: nothing is more exceptional than one's own life."
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"I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in."
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"The verdict of the world is conclusive."
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"The world's verdict is conclusive."
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