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"Not everything set on fire will rise."
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Personal Development

"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."
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Personal Development

"You're too old for fairy tales, Baasen said."
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Personal Development

"A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field."
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Personal Development

"By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."
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Personal Development

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
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Personal Development

"There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened."
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Personal Development

"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."
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Personal Development

"Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens."
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Personal Development

"A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."
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"The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles."
Lie

"God isn't dead - he's just missing in action."
God

"Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality."
Reality

"It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win."
Act

"And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara."
Hope

"When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right."
Society

"In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty."
Beauty

"There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song."
Poetry

"Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life."
Life

"Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend."
Girlfriend
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