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"Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy."
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"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."

"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."

"There are two types of egoism: one is living and other one is lifeless. As long as the living egoism is there, one can never attain the awareness of the Self (Atma)."

"When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?'I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure."

"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."

"Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World."
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"You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out."


"Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence."


"I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together."


"I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like."


"As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that."


"The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence."


"Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can."
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