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"I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame."
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"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."
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Personal Development
"Set goals to create a clear sense of purpose and direction."
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Personal Development
"Increase must become your natural desire."
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"Whenever God wants to intervene in the affairs of the earth, he intervenes through light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom."
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"All I am saying is that you should begin to see greatness as something you cannot do without. Begin to see greatness as something that you cannot afford not to have."
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"Discipline is needed in our pursuit."
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"A dream is the reality of a future that exists in a person's imagination."
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"You can touch the moon if you really want to do it."
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"A job should only be a stepping stone to being your own boss."
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"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."
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"You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality."
Justice
"It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' The choice between a duty or a principle, you know?"
Ethics
"I couldn't imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric."
Creativity
"Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories."
Life
"You never know, until it happens, what you will owe the dead."
Mortality
"She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down."
Empowerment
"At a certain point you have to leave childish things behind, and one of the childish things is a sense that 'Wow, I can draw' or in my case 'Wow, I can read'... You feel you have what's called a talent, but as you become an adult, if you hope to make things, you have to give up the preoccupation with talent otherwise you'll spend your life painting beautiful pictures of fruit bowls that look like fruit bowls."
Growth
"And it's time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings."
Society
"It's such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone."
Literature
"Full stories are as rare as honesty."
Honesty
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