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"It is much more important to be oneself than anything else."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Self, Authenticity, Identity, Uniqueness

"Your EGO feeds on the volume of the mental clutter, the greater the intensity the more crystallized is your EGO. Man dominates and exherts his mental superiority over others. Be Aware! Stop Mental Clutter, Kill EGO, Be YOU!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Self, Ego, Mental, Awareness, Superiority

"The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Self, Spirit, Will

"But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Self, Thought, Fate, Mind

"It's always good to know that you have been the best even though deep inside you know you will never be better than that."

Ana Claudia Antunes, Brazilian Singer

Self, Excellence, Acceptance, Humility

"I'm not much but I'm all I have."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

Self, Identity, Humility, Truth

"Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man but not free to be another."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

Self, Freedom, Constraint, Identity, Authenticity

"Sometimes I act like I have my shit together more than I do. Sometimes I act like I don't have my shit together as much as I do. I'm done acting. I'd rather just be okay with however together my shit is at the time, and still do my best to show up, as I am."

Scott Stabile, American Author

Self, Authenticity, Sensitivity, Truth

"If you just can't get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you'd be envious of you."

Charles F. Glassman, American Author

Self, Envy, Creativity, Life

"I have tried everything except being myself!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Self, Identity, Authenticity, Discovery

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"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."

Creativity

"It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway."

Now

"I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution."

Influence

"I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last."

Change

"I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling."

Writing

"The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started."

Competition

"New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts."

Thought

"I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book."

Wrong

"Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige."

Money

"I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no."

Being