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People who lack economic and social power often expand their physical impact on the world." "-In Pursuit of Silence
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The worst of a woman is that she expects you to make love to her, or to pretend to make love to her.
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The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.
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Is it being said too often how much we in the West have suffered because of the long wars between Islam and Christianity, leaving us biased and with gaps in our information? I think not.
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The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.
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He leaves and she thinks for the hundredth time that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.
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It is not too much to say that when the word "blood" is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart.
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For she was suffering that misery peculiar to the young, that they are going to be cheated by circumstances out of the full life every nerve and instinct is clamouring for.
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A continuity isn't necessarily right, just because it's a continuity.' 'Yes, Ella, it is. It is. Believe me, it is,
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Yes, it’s because it’s one thing to think poor things and another to allow that African politics could have any resemblance at all to English politics—even such a long time ago.
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Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.
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This is because the nature of this place is a strong emotion - "nostalgia" is their word for it - which means a longing for what has never been, or at least not in the form and shape imagined.
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As always he behaved as if he were an abstraction, not really there, a machine without a soul.
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So very Russian," people around were murmuring. That they did meant this was an audience pretty low down on the scale of sophistication, otherwise they would be saying, "Just like us, isn't it?
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Her source of self respect was that she had not - as she put it - given up and crawled into safety somewhere. Into a safe marriage.
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If someone cracks up, what does that mean? At what point does a person about to fall to pieces say: I'm cracking up? And if I were to crack up, what form would it take?
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But after all, to kind of like people, doc, puts you in a pretty privileged class for a start--so few citizens can afford to really kinda like people.
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Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.
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So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.
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Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.
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Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.
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A hundred things to do, but only one thing to be," he said, obstinately. "But perhaps I don't feel myself worthy of such a wealth of opportunity?
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I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
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It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
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Sometimes I dislike women I dislike us all because of our capacity for not thinking when it suits us...
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I have you for being normal, I hate you for it. You’re a normal human being. What right have you to that?
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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of suble air.
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This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.
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Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.
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...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.
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...We try to have things both ways. We’ve always refused to live by the book and the rule; but then why start worrying because the world doesn’t treat us by rule?
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With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
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I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.
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Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.
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