There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
It’s not like that often, I mean, I suppose out of a ratio of 10 fans maybe like 1 or 2 of ’em might be Asian, and maybe every second or third time they might bring up something that they’re Asian and I’m Asian.
My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer’s block, as if it was some kind of illness.
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it’s a simple view. I’ve taken it as far as it can go. I think I’ve expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.
We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
I don’t consider 41 being in prime of life. Even if I conceived a child tomorrow I’d be 52 by the time it was 10. I’m not sure I’d have the energy, and I find that quite scary.
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Next year I’m going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with.
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
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