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"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."
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"If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication."
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"Why is it that so many people think all the answers are in their wallet?"
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"It's no good to give money to anybody who thinks money as the root of all evil."
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"If you want to know the value of a month, ask a pregnant woman, if a month matters in her pregnancy."
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"Like any value, empathy must be acted upon."
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"Aligning your values and beliefs to your behaviour, increases your chances of being effective at living a fulfilling life without the stress of guilt-consciousness, internal strife or internal conflict."
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"Do not exchange your soul for money."
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"I won't give 10 dollars for fucking pornography, I will give them for something which will help me to develop..."
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"I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!"
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"That rational voice was right to be frightened. There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt a faint, morbid urge to jump."
Fear
"Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy."
Purpose
"The truth is that most writers are needy."
Wisdom
"He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly."
Emotion
"When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, One word at a time."
Creativity
"Words have weight."
Wisdom
"You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly."
Writing
"The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction."
Death
"You haven't finished the key, but not because you are afraid to finish. You're afraid of finding you can't finish. You're afraid to go down to where the stones stand, but not because you're afraid of what may come once you enter the circle. You're afraid of what may not come. You're not afraid of the great world, Eddie, but of the small one inside yourself."
Life
"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."
Education
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