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"The first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time."
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"The wise know much, but pretend to know little; the ignorant know little, but pretend to know much; and the foolish know nothing, but pretend to know all."
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"One of great arts of communication is the skill of listening to people."
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"I wish that I could know you. Not your soul, but you. I've read about you; I've seen into your heart. I've rebuilt your soul, as best I could. But that isn't the same. It isn't knowing someone, is it? That's knowing about someone."
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"Most people do not understand the process of achieving and fulfilling a dream."
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"I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill."
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"The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues."
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"Continuous understanding goes with love, courage, respect, discovery and acceptance of mistakes."
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"People who don't know how to use their minds can't really know how to use their hearts either."
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"Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society."
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"The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature."
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"What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry."
Imagination
"I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents."
Relationship
"The first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time."
Understanding
"Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers."
Ambition
"Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and of the heart."
Literature
"A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing."
Creativity
"A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep."
Activism
"There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running."
Family
"It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity."
Reflection
"Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive."
Society
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