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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
Personal Development

"When life gives you pain, give life your unconditional love."

"You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway."
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"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."


"If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that."


"There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect."


"Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that."


"I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target."


"I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around."


"It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant."


"I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality."
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