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"Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines."
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"Don't surrender your life to a Face, a Farce, a Fence or a Force. Don't be a Slave, be Brave."

"We ought to live the fullness of life."

"Stand tall like a tower."

"When we give up our dreams then we are merely existing and not living."

"If you try you would never be alone, because the whole world is tired of loneliness."

"Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless."

"Do not let the temporal pain of discipline you need to acquire knowledge stop you from acquiring it."

"Believe in yourself and the power of your inner strength."

"Go live your dreams. It is your only daring adventure."

"Fully inhale your dream and completely exhale manifestation of it."
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"Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the lips of the waves. Whatever else his long, unprecedented life might have been, it had been fun. Fun! If others should find that appraisal shallow, frivolous, so be it. To him, it seemed now to largely have been some form of play. And he vowed that in the future he would strive to keep that sense of play more in mind, for he'd grown convinced that play--more than piety, more than charity or vigilance--was what allowed human beings to transcend evil."

"There was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep loneliness."

"Beer does not satisfy magic, however. So the magic ordered a round of Harvey Wallbangers. But it takes more than vodka to fuel magic. It takes risks. It takes EXTREMES."

"The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'"

"True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed."

"Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots."

"Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously."

"But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man."

"What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy."
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