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"You can't test courage cautiously."
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"He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
"You stand the risk of bankruptcy, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
"At least I'm not afraid, and no one will ever call me boring."
"Throw a warrior to the wolves and he'll return a conqueror."
"Fear makes people speechless."
"When the sails are strong a ship has no reason to fear turbulence."
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"Putting a book together is interesting and exhilarating. It is sufficiently difficult and complex and it engages all your intelligence. It is life at its most free. Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let it rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself."
"You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades."
"There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary a batch of technical skills and equipment and perhaps a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things of their complexity fascination and unexpectedness."
"Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there."
"The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days."
"Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood."
"Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit."
"Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them."
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