"I volunteered for this life, wanted it and am not going to bitch about it now that I've got it."

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"I volunteered for this life, wanted it and am not going to bitch about it now that I've got it."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs."

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"Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project."

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"The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of waiting. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited."

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"I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it."

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"Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book."

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"Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets."

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"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."

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"Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine."

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"What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness."

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"Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations."

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