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"What you dream of, you will possess."
"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment."
"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"
"Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity."
"The dawn of beauty always comes after night."
"Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt."
"A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers."
"The most important journey you will take in your life will usually be the one of self transformation. Often, this is the scariest because it requires the greatest changes, in your life."
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"Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone."
"Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed."
"The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education."
"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."
"But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography."
"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."
"Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper."
"She had willed herself open to him and knew that the chemistry of love was all within her, her doing. Even his power to wound her with neglect was a power she had created and granted ..."
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