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"It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
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"Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz."She smirked. "A job, eh?" Making things in your forge?""Nah, we could start our own shop," Leo said, surprising himself. Starting a machine shop had always been one of his dreams, but he'd never told anyone about it. "Leo and Calypso's Garage: Auto Repair and Mechanical Monsters."
"There is nothing wrong with wanting more. There is no reason why you should n't get everything you want from life."
"It was strange to have those papers signed. Like any big project or crisis that takes every waking and non - waking moment in your life, it was odd to have it concluded. A move, a college degree, a wedding - something long - strived - for is completed, whatever the outcome, and there is a huge space where it all once was. All that open time now, and a continuing nagging sense that there's something you need to be doing."
"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
"To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs that had thus fallen into his possession satisfied not the cravings of his heart, which yearned to return to dwell among mankind, and to assume the rank, power, and influence which are always accorded to wealth - that first and greatest of all the forces within the grasp of man."
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"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."
"One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves."
"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."
"Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults."
"Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel."
"The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all."
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