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"Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other."
"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think."
"For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination."
"It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else."
"The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know."
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"Creators always have an advantage because they make the stuff we consume."
"In order to be more successful than the other people, you have to do something that otherpeople are not doing."
"If there seems no answers then create and apply them."
"If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude."
"Innovators with global thinking find more viewing spots that the rest; therefore, they can solve problems in unconventional ways."
"We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press."
"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet."
"We have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they're workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we're on the right track."
"Innovation gives life to imagination by providing that it is true, real, and useful."
"I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid."
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