Quotes 521 till 540 of 542.
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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You don't really talk about it in terms of the U.N., you talk about it in terms of the United States and the Soviet Union. If you cannot, by diplomacy, bring the Soviet Union into an alliance with the U.S. to stop this situation it is not going to be stopped.
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You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.
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You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.
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You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.
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You never stop thinking about technique, but really, the reason we're actors is because of the sheer joy of those few moments you get every now and again where you're totally present. The rest is just struggle and misery.
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You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
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You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.
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You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.
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It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
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The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
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