Quotes About Homer Hickam

#1. All I've done is give you a book," she said. "You have to have the courage to learn what's inside it.

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#2. I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

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#3. Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.

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#4. A gillie, by golly! But it's illegal!" "It knows," Crater

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#5. Lunar Geology Rocks.

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#6. I didn't care ... about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.

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#7. But that's what kismet is. It makes us careen off in odd directions from which we learn not only what life is about but what it is for. This journey may be nothing less than your chance to discover these things." "You're

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#8. Agitators were dispatched to Coalwood in droves and, very soon, wildcat strikes were hitting the mine every

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#9. Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. [ ... ] Learn how to be happy and keep this in mind: You can't be happy unless you stop being afraid.

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#10. There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop.

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#11. Death happened often enough that a certain melancholy existed between the young men and women of the little West Virginia town when they made their daily farewells

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#12. Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always.

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#13. The key to not getting rejected if you're writing for a magazine, is to know to read that magazine and know everything about them before you ever make a submission.

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#14. Time is really the only gift we receive from God that we can give to others.

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#15. I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.

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#16. I'm a writer. These people are American nomads, forever on the move, trying to feed themselves and their families. I'm thinking about writing a book about them. My name is John Steinbeck. Perhaps you've heard of me." After

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#17. A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

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#18. It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

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#19. You clearly are a remarkable man," she said, "to travel with such creatures. The rooster is much more than he seems, as is the alligator. But, of course, you know that." Homer

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#20. The way I see it, if everybody ran from bad things instead of trying to stop them, bad things would be all there is.

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#21. As I wrote more I became more critical of myself and I think that you have to be your harshest judge. I don't ever believe that what I write is my best work. I always think that I can hone it. I can always think that I can make it a little bit better.

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#22. Let me find you. If you don't, I will still look. If you won't, I will still look. If you can't, I will still look. It is the looking that finds the love, Not the finding. Homer

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#23. You think you don't need anything," she said. "You think you know yourself completely. Yet, the paradox is that you are on this journey to discover who you really are." "But

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#24. Elsie started to tell a lie she knew her husband wanted to hear. I don't love Buddy. I love you. To her astonishment, what came out was "I'm sorry." When she realized what she had said, she tried to tell her lie again but it still came out the same. "I'm sorry." "So

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#25. Most things take more time than we believe they will. But, now, what about love? Will love take more time than you think?" "I don't know anything about love." "That is true," she agreed. "Yet, every mile you travel on this journey is for this thing you don't know anything about." Homer

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#26. A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse!

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#27. It was during a strike when I first saw hate on a man's face. Hate is an awful thing. It gets inside you and makes you do things you swear you'd never do.

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#28. Hemingway reached over and took Elsie's hand. "Do you know Dylan Thomas? I have always admired his take on death. Like he, I intend to go raging against the dying of the light." "Dear,

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#29. Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants to enjoy the book but also, as a writer, noticing the techniques that the writer uses and especially the ones that make you want to turn the page to see what happened.

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#30. You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.

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#31. Death ain't nothin'," the tied-up man retorted. "It's how you die. Watch me, boys, and learn somethin'!

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#32. A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.

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#33. Writer's block to me is where you stop because you're afraid to go forward because you're not sure of what really should be happening next and you think, my gosh, if I choose this ... you've got a hundred millions of avenues you could possibly go down but it's all an assess of characters.

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#34. There's a plan. If you're willing to fight it hard enough, you can make it detour for a while, but you're still going to end up wherever God wants you to be. G

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