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"I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless."
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"Patience brings perseverance."
"A river continues to flow despite losing a few drops at each turn."
"Life demands discomfort and pain."
"One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull blue-black stones of the badlands. I do not pause this time. The more often you stop the more difficult it is to continue. Stop too long and they cover you with rocks."
"Sometimes all we need to be able to continue aloneare the deadrattling the wallsthat close us in."
"I walked without breaks, slept through nights without waking, inhumanly smooth " a small machine."
"Love is what remains after the falling in love is gone."
"Deeds of endurance, which seem ordinary in philosophy, are rare in conduct."
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"At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life."
"You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world."
"I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives."
"The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage."
"The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15."
"Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years."
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