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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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Personal Development

"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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"I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge."
Humor

"Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good."
War

"Write a page a day. It will add up."
Writing

"The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot."
Mind

"I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it."
Wealth

"I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans."
Man

"The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns."
Being

"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today."
Being

"Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live."
Interest

"Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth."
Religion
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