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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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Personal Development
"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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Personal Development
"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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Personal Development
"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral."
Money
"If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after."
Being
"It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple."
Old
"I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself."
Freedom
"How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible."
Woman
"My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves."
Father
"I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't."
Age
"The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me."
Idea
"I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me."
Family
"I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne."
Life
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