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"What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."
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"When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up."
"Ambition is greed without makeup."
"Don't just raise the bar. Raise the roof."
"Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object " we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering."
"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."
"Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically."
"A dream is the reality of a future that exists in a person's imagination."
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"I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswise across his character and disposition and general outlook."
"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."
"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
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