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"Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer."
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"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."
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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."
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"Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present."
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"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."
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"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."
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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
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"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."
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"Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent."
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"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."
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"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
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"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."
Life
"I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work."
Travel
"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
Being
"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends."
Friendship
"There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is."
World
"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."
Exploration
"In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays."
Freedom
"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."
Attitude
"It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people."
People
"I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined."
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