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"For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat."
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"When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do."
Love
"For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat."
Defeat
"One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago."
Nostalgia
"Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it."
Coffee
"At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture."
Creativity
"Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings."
Time
"Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does."
Man
"In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic."
Science
"It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them."
Fun
"Just write about what bites you and damn the rest."
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"Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides."
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"The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest."
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"We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy."
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Personal Development
"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."
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Personal Development
"I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves."
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"We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate."
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"What we now have in Iraq is a defeat."
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"Man is not made for defeat."
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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."
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"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."
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Personal Development
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