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"I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve."
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"I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways."
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"What worried him worst at the moment - for it is often little things that are hardest to stand - was that his lip was bleeding where they had hit him and he couldn't wipe the little trickle of blood away although it tickled him."
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"I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each draw, as if I had strapped some unfortunate mouse to a torture device and was twisting with glee."
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"Every goal has a road block, that is our fear of failure."
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"We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before."
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"Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not around pain, or in spite of it."
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"The whole thing could have been uncomfortable if all your wishes were to be drowned in to the sea or passed through a heart of a lion that shed not the innocent blood."
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"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together."
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"To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio."
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"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
Purpose
"My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy."
Love
"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
Man
"If music be the food of love, play on."
Food
"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."
Heart
"I like not fair terms and a villain's mind."
Mind
"Time and the hour run through the roughest day."
Time
"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
Thought
"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
Day
"Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains."
Peace
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