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"The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves."
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"I will meet you in that gap where consciousness meets unconsciousness."

"Understanding is to knowledge what the flesh is to the body. Insight is to wisdom what life is to the soul."

"I understand your actions more than your conversations."

"Visible obstacles shine a light on hidden opportunities."

"I've learned, that not all worth is measured by price. I've found so many gems that didn't cost me much!"

"It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit."

"I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores."
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"I all of a sudden got to feeling like talking to people. Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean. I'm weird like that."

"Only by learning the truth-whatever that truth might be-could people be given the right kind of power."

"I never had what it takes to make a first-rate anything.''That's wrong,' she declared. 'Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it?' But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down."

"I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white trays. It did feel good to see them happy."

"In response to my father-in-law's view, I offered no opinion. He was not looking for my opinion. He had merely been spouting his belief, a conviction that would remain unchanged for all eternity."

"Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me."

"The early autumn sun glinted on the water, an enormous mirror ground to powder and scattered."
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