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"There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path."
Success

"You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'"
Creativity

"Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power."
Power

"My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day."
Age

"In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you."
Immigration

"I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese."
Family

"I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer."
Writing

"It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success."
Success

"I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from."
Imagination

"Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses."
Inspirational
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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."
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"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."
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Personal Development

"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
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Personal Development

"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."
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Personal Development

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
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Personal Development

"The only way to make a great thought great is to share it."
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Personal Development

"Language is the dress of thought."
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Personal Development

"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."
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Personal Development

"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."
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Personal Development

"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."
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Personal Development
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