"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it."

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"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it."

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"The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it."

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"When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good."

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