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"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
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Personal Development
"I believe the more personally removed people are from a major financial event, the less it is to affect their appetite for risk."
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Personal Development
"Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.."
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Personal Development
"I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it."
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Personal Development
"If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish."
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Personal Development
"Taking risks to create the life you want is an act of trust. It means believing in your ability to create a new reality while you are in the process of creating it."
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Personal Development
"What you risk reveals what you value."
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Personal Development
"Accidents are built into the road."
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Personal Development
"And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot."She raised her hand. "Don't.""It was awesome," George confirmed. "It really was," Jack said. "His head exploded."
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Personal Development
"Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness."
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Personal Development
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"My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum."
Desire
"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
"Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul."
Quality
"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."
Now
"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."
Joy
"When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten."
Family
"Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things."
Literature
"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."
Beginning
"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep."
Interest
"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
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