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"It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"The Bible teaches that whether we are saved or lost, there is conscious and everlasting existence of the soul and personality."
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"I find beauty in every sacred moment."
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"Life is not judged just by the heart beats, but by the way you accept and overcome the challenges of life."
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"Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project."
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"No matter how much you exercise, no matter how many vitamins or health foods you eat, no matter how low your cholesterol, you will still die-someday. If you knew the moment and manner of your death in advance, would you order your life differently?"
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"The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free."
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"Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley."
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"I love life with its twists and turns."
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"My father managed to change his entire life after I wrote a novel about his brutal regime as a family man. It took resoluteness and courage for my father to change, and I need to acknowledge that."
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"I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language."
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"I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old."
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"My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name."
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"When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city."
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"What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way."
Writing

"I love teaching."
Love

"My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done."
Family

"I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing."
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"Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am."
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"My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding."
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