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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."
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"Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service."
"Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it."
"I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world."
"Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.They remember the tree that died, the gull that splattered onto the hood of the car.They live by symbols. They read meaning into the barrage of spam on the unused computer, the delete key that stops working, the imagined abandonment in the decision to replace it."
"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything."
"I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat."
"I would stay in New York, I told him, just six months, and I could see the Brooklyn Bridge from my window. As it turned out the bridge was the Triborough, and I stayed eight years."
"More than anyone else in the society, these men had apparently dreamed the dream and made it work. And what they did then was to build a place which seems to illustrate, as in a child's primer, that the production ethic led step by step to unhappiness, to restrictiveness, to entrapment in the mechanics of living."
"People with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things."
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