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"I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
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Personal Development
"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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Personal Development
"I want to be all used up when I die."
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Personal Development
"I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one."
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Personal Development
"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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Personal Development
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
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Personal Development
"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."
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Personal Development
"If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more."
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Personal Development
"I want to take TSA to the next level."
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Personal Development
"If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it."
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"I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard."
Work
"Continuity is one of the things I like about New England."
Writing
"You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness."
Happiness
"I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass."
Writing
"I always want to write something better than the last book."
Want
"People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense."
People
"At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done."
Travel
"I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam."
Writing
"I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way."
Leadership
"Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living."
Being
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