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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
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"Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now!"
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"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."
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"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."
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"What is now proved was once only imagined."
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"What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower."
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"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
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"I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now."
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"I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me."
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"I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among the most interesting that I have ever seen."
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"I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think."
Friendship
"With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now."
Now
"I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself."
Recognition
"My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I."
Family
"It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live."
Life
"This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."
Want
"It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way."
Knowledge
"Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker."
Care
"Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon."
Books
"'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves."
Reading
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