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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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"One who takes the road less traveled earns the rewards most missed."
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"The more difficult a problem is, the more discoveries you make in the process of resolving it."
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"When you become a transformer, you become faced with the challenge of skepticism."
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"You stand the risk of a down turn, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
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"To understand me you should reach my level at my game, so far you are somewhere down I am above."
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"The greater your destiny the greater your troubles."
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"It is in vain to try and kick the wind."
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"Life's greatest challenge are the manifestations of our dreams."
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"Don't be restricted to your comfort zone alone."
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"I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, "This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles."
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"I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches."
Death
"And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy."
Education
"When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city."
Challenge
"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."
Dream
"What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading."
Life
"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."
Thought
"After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half."
Education
"What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way."
Writing
"I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another."
People
"My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris."
Thought
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