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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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"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
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"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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"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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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
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"Doubt isn't original."
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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
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"Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out."
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"And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't."
Thought

"I think situations are more important than plot and character."
Character

"I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old."
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"My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done."
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"I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches."
Death

"Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited."
Time

"And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy."
Education

"My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding."
Poetry

"When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city."
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"I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language."
Dream
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