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"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."
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"I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit."
"It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?"
"The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable."
"Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward."
"I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free."
"I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?"
"We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world."
"To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world."
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"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."
"There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention."
"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."
"The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all."
"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."
"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."
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