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"I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly."
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"Positive expectations create a positive life."

"Pretend those around you are deaf to your words. Let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions. This way of living ensures the potency of your message is delivered and serves as a gauge against our verbal nonsense."

"Stop pointing fingers and placing blame on others. Your life can only change to the degree that you accept responsibility for it."

"Negative thoughts about us and our life may deprive us of our health."

"Whatever your problem is, if you may think it rightly, the solution will appear on the horizon like a shining sun!"
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"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."

"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."

"Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power."

"The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers."

"Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service."

"My father was dead, my mother was dead, I would need for a while to watch for mines, but I would still get up in the morning and send out the laundry. I would still plan a menu for Easter lunch. I would still remember to renew my passport. Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life."
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