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"Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it."
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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."

"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."

"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."
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"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."

"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves."

"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."

"What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe."

"If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies."

"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."
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