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"Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory."
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"Failure exists. Yes! Failure exists. Don't expect to meet all your expectations in life; however, expect to do everything you must do to realize your expectations and success. These two things success and failure have in common; they both responds to uncertainty and they are triggered by action."
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"Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will."
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"A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance."
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"God has a will for your city, country, neighboring countries, and the whole world."
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"Your life goal and mission is to find your gift, become what you have been created to be and with your gift serve mankind, promoting advancement and influencing humanity."
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"Nothing can squelch your fire except turning your back on the thing that fuels it."
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"One cannot help feeling that some alternative occupation-lettuce farming, say-would offer somewhat less of a risk of being put to death by installments. Why do you persist in it?Goldeneyes Dactylos shrugged."I'm good at it, he said."
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"Identifying the purpose of your living is more important than creating a family and having children."
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"It is easy to know your purpose in life, because you choose your purpose in life."
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"The purpose of your life is to find your ultimate purpose that makes you happy. Then commit to it wholeheartedly."
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"In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices."
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"An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself."
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"I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal."
Literature
"I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it."
Body
"Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life."
Life
"Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form."
Fiction
"All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one."
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"When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing."
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"A writer has to live with a sense of honor."
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"Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory."
Purpose
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