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"I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it."
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"Where there is a risk, there is a wealth."
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"Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable."
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"You play with ice - you get cold.You play with fire - you get burnt.you play with me - you get lucky."
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"Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.."
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"Be courageous! Never fear to take a chance."
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"I have set my life upon a cast,And I will stand the hazard of the die."
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"Dicing with death is one man's cup of tea, but another man's poison. I just didn't fear anything."
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"Life is a game of chance. You ought to play the game."
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"If safety is my goal, living life is not."
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"You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out."
Genius
"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."
Genius
"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."
Truth
"Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest."
Criticism
"I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends."
Friendship
"I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book."
Reading
"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary."
Life
"I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day."
Books
"I want to live quietly."
Want
"I love devils."
Love
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