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"I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone."
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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

"You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions."

"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
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"Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it."

"The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next."

"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."

"If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies."

"The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in."

"Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else."
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