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"Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game."
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"The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do."
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"You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades."
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"You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies."
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"The master initiate of any craft appears magical to the uninitiated."
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"Seth joined the group of very stern-looking men, and they immediately started talking, their voices too low for me to hear, but it didn't stop me from trying. I learned fairly quickly that I sucked at reading lips. Everything looked like they were saying "tomatoes or "I love you and I doubted that was what was being said."
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"Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy."
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"If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write."
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"I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way."
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"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."
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"Everyone I meet wants to give me directions, but I'm not lost."
Life

"There are no sad days, only sad thoughts."
Emotion

"People don't think when they're enjoying themselves. Thinking is a sign of disturbance."
Mindset

"The hammer never complains of the noise."
Work

"The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for."
Philosophy

"Geniuses are a dime a dozen. The truly tolerant are rare."
Character

"When you act without feeling, that's the living death."
Emotion

"I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me."
Behavior

"Practically all the sadness we experience in life comes from our feeling sorry for ourselves."
Emotion

"We love to love and feel loved because love is the greatest pleasure of all."
Love
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