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"A desert is a place without expectation."
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"A desert is a place without expectation."
Expectation
"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."
Life
"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity."
Creativity
"There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice."
Sacrifice
"A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings."
Fear
"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb."
Power
"Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter."
Time
"Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."
Beauty
"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable."
History
"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand."
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"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
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Personal Development
"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
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Personal Development
"Expectations create and shape reality."
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Personal Development
"Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond."
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Personal Development
"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
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Personal Development
"Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you."
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Personal Development
"What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven."
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Personal Development
"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."
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Personal Development
"I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life."
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Personal Development
"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
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Personal Development
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