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"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."
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"You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it."

"There is worth everywhere and in everything we see."

"The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it."

"You are beloved; even if you were the last person on earth, the sun would rise for you."

"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."

"Too many people die early, either tragically or natural death, because they did not treat their lives with any sense of value."

"If your coming into the world was a mistake, then you are the most beautiful error in the universe."

"Water is gold in the desert."
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"The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner."

"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."

"It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week."

"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."

"I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown."

"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
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