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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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Personal Development

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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Personal Development

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."
Being

"More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina."
Life

"No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him."
Family

"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."
Business

"There's no reason you should write any novel quickly."
Reason

"Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy."
Nostalgia

"Where our desires "come from"; that is a dark, winding road."
Desire

"But good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive."
Relationship

"You can't learn everything you need to know legally."
Power

"When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time-the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes-when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever-there comes another day, and another specifically missing part."
Life
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