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"You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission."
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"The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to actualize them. The tragedy, however, is that you soon realize that the time you thought you had to fulfill the dreams had melted away before your very eyes."

"Take this short time that you have on earth and convert it into greatness."

"Dare to make major changes to reach your newly discovered destiny."

"Personal Responsibility is the individual desire to be in charge or in control of an action or situation."

"Desire great things in life. Expect great things in life."

"Extraordinary breakthroughs are only ordinary breaks that were grabbed, explored, improved, maximized and harnessed to a profitable maximum."

"Keep moving, no matter how slow you move, you will definitely arrive at your destination."

"Keep a clear picture of your goals in mind. The power of imagination is unlimited."

"As long as we desire to reach new heights, we will find the strength to climb the mountain."

"Look beyond now. The road ahead offers a good voyage."
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"Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them."

"The isolated imagination is easily corrupted by theory, but the writer inside his community seldom has such a problem."

"From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recollections of myself. At that age you don't look for what is hidden. It is a sign of maturity not to be scandalized and to try to find explanations in charity."

"I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow."

"The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live."

"Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you."

"Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers."

"In any case, you can't have effective allegory in times when people are swept this way and that by momentary convictions, because everyone will read it differently. You can't indicate moral values when morality changes with what is being done, because there is no accepted basis of judgment. And you cannot show the operation of grace when grace is cut off from nature or when the very possibility of grace is denied, because no one will have the least idea of what you are about."
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