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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
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Personal Development
"I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss."
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Personal Development
"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."
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Personal Development
"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."
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Personal Development
"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."
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Personal Development
"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."
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Personal Development
"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."
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Personal Development
"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."
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Personal Development
"When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man."
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Personal Development
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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Personal Development
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"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
Risk
"You're afraid of criticism,' she says. 'But criticism is a sign of life! You know who doesn't get criticized? Nonentities! Only the dead escape criticism."
Criticism
"Fame turns out to be a powerful instrument of grace because it humbles its chosen victims in a hurry. You sail into it, your canvas swelled with grandiosity, and when your fifteen minutes are over and you are becalmed, you realize that grandiosity cannot take you where you need to go.Only then do you learn to row like hell, asking God for the strength to stay afloat."
Fame
"I had forgotten how awful it was to be a woman alone--the leering glances, the catcalls, the offers of help which you dared not accept for fear of incurring a sexual debt. The awful sense of vulnerability. No wonder I had gone from man to man and always wound up married. How could I have left Bennett? How could I have forgotten?"
Sensitivity
"Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married."
Marriage
"In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving."
Friendship
"There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes."
Crisis
"Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same."
Marriage
"We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate."
Productivity
"No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks."
Wisdom
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