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"Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others."
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"When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up."
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"Ambition is greed without makeup."
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Personal Development
"Don't just raise the bar. Raise the roof."
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"Whenever God wants to intervene in the affairs of the earth, he intervenes through light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom."
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"It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded."
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"All you need is a dream to drive you nuts."
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"Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object " we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering."
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"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."
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"Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically."
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"A dream is the reality of a future that exists in a person's imagination."
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"It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades."
Health
"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."
Sociology
"I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it."
Life
"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is."
Truth
"Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt."
Character
"To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better."
Art
"AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them."
Awareness
"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
Art
"In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it."
Art
"Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others."
Ambition
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