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"How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life."
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"He checked her over while mentally checking himself. "Environment suits sealed up. Breather masks in hand. Daemons. Blades. Transmitters. Healthy respect for the adversary-you've got that, right?One corner of her mouth curled up. "Absolutely."

"Our reaction and attitude to persecution will determine if we are really ready for big things or not."

"What steps can you take to prepare before meeting others to ensure that when you do show up, you are bringing your very best to the table?"

"He who fails to understand that one should prepare for every single blessing will reap the problems connected with lack of preparation before the blessing."

"Things do not descend upon anything that is not ready to receive them."

"The study book for life's tests is the whole of our experience. Though we mayfeel unprepared, tests appear only when we are truly ready to ace them."

"The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready."

"If you're not inthe mood, you can't do that stuff right."

"We should be ready for a change."
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"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."


"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."


"Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence."


"My mother. I don't think too harshly of her. I know she did all she could not to have me, except of course the one thing, and if she never succeeded in getting me unstuck, it was that fate had earmarked me for less compassionate sewers."


"There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket."


"Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned."
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