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The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.
George R. R. Martin
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But at the same time, my parents always encouraged my brother and me to be happy with what we were doing. My parents were athletes in high school my mom and my dad were the stars of the basketball team, but they never pushed my brother and me to be anything we didn't want to be.
Jonathan Groff
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
Vasily Grossman
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There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never be overcome by evil – an evil that is itself eternal but will never succeed in overcoming good – whenever we see this dawn, the blood of old people and children is always shed.
Vasily Grossman
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There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.
Vasily Grossman
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I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.
Cornelia Funke
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He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.
Vasily Grossman
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And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this hatred and lack of understanding between men who spoke the same tongue, you could see much of the tragedy of the twentieth century.
Vasily Grossman
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I don't believe in your Good. I believe in human kindness.
Vasily Grossman
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What keeps people from living together is their stupidity, not their differences.
Anna Gavalda
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Elected officials shouldn’t get to choose who gets to choose elected officials.
Lewis Black
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Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.
Anna Gavalda
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How could you let yourself be sidetracked while I was waiting for your breath on my back?
Anna Gavalda
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The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, the recognition of necessity. Freedom is the opposite of necessity. Freedom is necessity overcome. Progress is, in essence, the progress of human freedom. Yes, and after all, life itself is freedom. The evolution of life is the evolution of freedom.
Vasily Grossman
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In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil. We must never become indifferent to others or undemanding of ourselves.
Vasily Grossman
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I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.
Vasily Grossman
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At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.
Vasily Grossman
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The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.
Vasily Grossman
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I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.
Kurt Vonnegut
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What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.
Dean Koontz
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I bought a house, it's a two bedroom house, but I think it's up to me to decide how many bedrooms there are. This bedroom has an oven in it. This bedroom has a lot of people sitting around watching TV. This bedroom is over in that other guy's house.
Mitch Hedberg
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Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.
Neil Gaiman
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I've always been kind of drawn to the extremities of human nature. I wrote my first screenplay when I was 16. The initial idea was a friendship between two prostitutes, and I spent time with a vice squad guy in Cincinnati who brought me to a brothel and gave me the rundown on how street prostitution works.
Veena Sud
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It's the open ocean right now because it's so unique. It's a really unique way of doing American television. There are a million possibilities. We can stay with the cops. We can introduce new worlds. And, who knows where it will end.
Veena Sud
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