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"One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind."
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"You must have your own world within the world and you must never compromise on the matters of giving up your own world for any reason whatsoever!"

"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."
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"In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone."

"If a lotus is to grow, it needs to be rooted in the mind."

"It is terrifying, said Adrian. "And weird, for lack of a better word. And part of you knows well, part of you knows something's not right. That your thinking's not right. But what do you about that? All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind, what can you trust? What other people tell you?"

"When you spend time worrying, you're simply using your imagination to create things you don't want."

"Free your mind of that which you have no control. It is not only good to do so for your mental, but your overall health. Some people must learn from experience. You can convey knowledge to them and offer to show them the way. But, that doesn't mean your wisdom will be accepted or appreciated."

"No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead."
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"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

"Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living."

"Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house."

"Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it."

"I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on."

"Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left."

"Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?"

"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."

"Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."
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