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"The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content."
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"You cannot truly know pleasure without pain. You cannot truly know strength without weakness. You cannot truly know joy without sorrow. You cannot truly know hope without despair."
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"In light, there is no darkness; and in darkness, there is no light."
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"As with most things in life, a healthy balance will keep us on the right path. To avoid too much eye contact or too little, seek to create a comfortable mix. It is generally encouraged to use more eye contact when you are listening and less when you are speaking."
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"The absolute value of being neutral is zero."
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"The effect of overworking, we miss sacred moments."
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"Relax, Recreate and Refresh!"
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"There is a law of opposition apparent in all life which guarantees balance and fullness."
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"This whole life is an art of knowing when to sit and when to stand up!"
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"If you make lots of little changes to your lifestyle, you'll need to make time to have some fun too, otherwise life can get a little boring."
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"She tried to think about what lay ahead, but soon gave up. 'Words turn into stone,' Nimit had told her. She settled deep into her seat and closed her eyes. All at once the image came to her of the sky she had seen while swimming on her back. And Erroll Garner's 'I'll Remember April.' Let me sleep, she thought. Just let me sleep. And wait for the dream to come."
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"Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life."
Life

"My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert."
Family

"I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out."
Literature

"I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order."
Faith

"So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions."
Fun

"I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do."
Time

"When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring."
Control

"This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money."
Money

"I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before."
Character

"Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that."
Life
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