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"I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly."
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"Messages focused on miracle will breed in the mind of people the mentality that production is not necessary for prosperity."

"Openness is also an acceptance that just as you have the inherent right to create your life as you see fit, so others have the same right with their own lives, even if their design differs from yours greatly."

"We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them."

"Philosophers think, creators make!"

"Regardless of whether luck or coincidence is involved, desires directed in the right way have a tendency to manifest."

"You never can change the reality without changing the perception."

"Thoughts are powerful; before you were born, you were one."
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"I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response."

"As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become..."

"I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness."

"We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as 'ordinary blessings."

"A doctor to whom I occasionally talk suggest that I have made an inadequate adjustment to aging.Wrong, I want to say.In fact I have made no adjustment whatsoever to aging.In fact I had lived my entire life to date without seriously believing that I would age."

"I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story."

"I bought new strings of colored lights. This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take the opportunity for such professions where and when I can invent them, since I do not yet actually feel this faith in the future."

"Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?"
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