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- There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
- My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll…
- If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at…
- You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So far you're doing…
- Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the…
- Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled…
- I have too many secrets. For all these years I've been a speaker for the dead, uncovering secrets and helping people to live in the…
- You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it…
- In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
- You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's…
- . . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world,…
- The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the…
- Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever…
- And above all, what does being liberal have to do with opposing, or, uh, supporting the war against terror? Our enemies in the war against…
- I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead…
- But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary…
- To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back. And to feel…
- If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
- This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to…
- She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the strength of their…
- We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a…
- Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.
- I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the…
- Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you
- It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.
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