"Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself."

-- Clarence Day

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“But everything of value about me is in my books.”
“Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.”
“Attributing global climate change to human COâ‚‚ production is akin to trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the engine (analogous to the Sun in the climate system) and the transmission (water vapour) and instead focusing entirely, not on one nut on a rear wheel (which would be analogous to total CO2) but on one thread on that nut, which represents the human contribution.”
“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of.”
“If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?”
“We need to stand together with all of the victims [ of sexual harassment] and make sure they are not silenced.”

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“And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate.”
“And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.”

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