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"The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone."
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Personal Development
"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
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"He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things."
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"Patience is what is needed to see through any process of production."
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"Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird."
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Personal Development
"You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else."
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"But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes."
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"Creativity is a synthesis of two qualities: imagination and concreteness."
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"As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light.As always, the glum knowledge that he would not write as well as he wanted to write. As always the terror of not being able to finish, of accelerating into a brick wall. As always, the marvelous joyful nervy feeling of journey begun."
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"Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection, his progressive steps, mysterious even to himself, should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition."
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"In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something."
Understanding
"When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm."
People
"Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers."
Business
"Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can."
Dress
"People don't really think other people are the same."
People
"The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war."
War
"Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA."
Crime
"Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately."
Humanity
"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."
Man
"Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap."
Enemy
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