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"I am not writing this book for people below the age of 18, but I see no harm in telling young people to prepare for failure rather than success, since failure is the main thing that is going to happen to them."
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"To automatically be promoted from one class to another without any serious self- discipline, and self- improvement is a cheap life."

"Sometimes by failing we find a better opportunity to win."

"The only thing that could cleanse our society is when our messages is focused on diligence, hard work and been faithful in little."

"The content of a man is the life he possesses inside."

"If you don't have any results to show for all your passing time, then you must have been trivializing time and you must have been living your life carelessly."

"Difficulties of life are valuable opportunities for self-discovery."

"If this world always made sense and there wasn't the gloomy dark nights that awakened your soul, you would never grow ~ you would never become, nor seek greater version of yourself."

"Every limitation must be overcome to realised the goal."

"Every morning, introduce one positive thought into your mind. Be persistent with it until it becomes your habit. It will change your life."
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"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

"I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak."

"She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrased and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all."

"About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm."

"Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia."

"The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin."

"...a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit."

"Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are."

"The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman."
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