Next to Elka lay a man’s form. Another in my place would have made an uproar, and enough noise to rouse the whole town, but the thought occurred to me that I might wake the child.

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Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

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People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

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The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

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The main rule of a writer is never to pity your manuscript. If you see something is no good, throw it away and begin again.

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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

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Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.

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We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.

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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

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