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"It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act."
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"I can only be me."
"Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others."
"You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer."
"The crucial point in life is: are we living our 'own' life or simply a life for 'other' people. Are we not playing a role on behalf of some social groups and masquerading for fear of being excluded? ['Quest for the real moment']"
"Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world."
"Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist."
"Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about."
"Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you."
"We have compromised the integrity of the church if we only emphasise on miracles."
"Trying to keep up appearances is a signal of decay on the inside. Beware shallow living-in yourself and in others. It is only in the depths that life can thrive."
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"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
"A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day."
"He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth."
"He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still."
"The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world."
"He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation."
"Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more."
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