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"Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action."
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

"Do it or not, but do."

"I'm good at doing things I'm not supposed to, she said, then kicked the door open."

"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

"Taking action provides immediate feedback and an opportunity to review your progress to see if you are on the right track."
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"By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication."

"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear."

"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed."

"There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale."

"Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."

"The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike."
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