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"That's not FOR REAL."
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Personal Development
"If I sound as if I'm always predicting ominous things, it's because I'm a pragmatist. I use deductive reasoning to generalize, and I suppose this sometimes ends up sounding like unlucky prophecies. You know why? Because reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. You have to only open a newspaper on any given day and weigh the good news versus the bad, and you'll see what I mean."
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Personal Development
"I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children."
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Personal Development
"The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire."
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Personal Development
"The 'practical' man, as this word is often used, is one who recognizes only the material needs, who realizes that men must have food for the body, but is oblivious of the necessity of providing food for the mind."
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Personal Development
"Ya got cigarettes? she asks. "Yes, I say,"I got cigarettes. "Matches? she asks."Enough to burn Rome. "Whiskey?"Enough whiskey for a Mississippi River of pain. "You drunk? "Not yet."
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Personal Development
"She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy."
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Personal Development
"And our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter."
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Personal Development
"Cat can have kittens in the oven, girl, but that won't ever make em muffins."
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Personal Development
"It may seem so easy to take it easy but, it is never so easy to take it easy."
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"Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfAated but life-enhancing thoughts."
Travel
"Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it."
Curiosity
"It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships."
Ambition
"In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well."
Work
"Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don't know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate."
Commitment
"Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom."
Life
"Being political doesn't only or principally mean caring what party wins the next election, to be political is to care about the happiness of strangers."
Politics
"It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things."
Life
"The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent."
Politics
"If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful."
Ambition
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