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"Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."
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"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
Life
"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."
Memory
"The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help."
Time
"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."
Solitude
"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
People
"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."
Anger
"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
People
"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
Books
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
Poetry
"Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen."
Wisdom
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