"Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control."

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"Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control."

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"Control your thoughts to define your life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The quality of your life depends on how you take control of your time."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that."

Keren Ann, Israeli Musician

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"You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you."

John Green, American Author

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"You can control one thing and that is your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."

George Eliot, British Author

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"A man with a victim mentality attracts autocrats into his life who will decide how he should live."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"All identification is for control and ownership."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"If you fail to control your thought, your thought will never fail to control you! Master the art of controlling your thought better and your thought will control you better."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."

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"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."

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"There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall."

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"Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster."

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"The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."

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"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."

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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."

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"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy."

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"Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness."

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"The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence."

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