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"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
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"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."
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"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."
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"In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will."
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"I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules."
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"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
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"The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book."
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"We have to be careful about creating more rules."
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"There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is."
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"I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em."
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"You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity."
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"When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?"
Sacrifice
"Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They've given up all for nothing. They've been cheated. They're dupes."Waddington reflected for a little while. "I wonder if it matters what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books the write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art."
Reflection
"The passing moment is all we can be sure of it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it."
Mindfulness
"I have always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one knows that other as well as one knows himself? Heaven knows. I know little enough of myself: I know nothing of others. We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbours. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as for himself."
Wisdom
"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."
Simplicity
"Philip looked at his own work. How could you tell whether there was anything in it or whether you were wasting your time? It was clear that the will to achieve could not help you and confidence in yourself meantnothing."
Work
"I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling."
Sacrifice
"The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself."
Philosophy
"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
Life
"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
Age
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