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"What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common...."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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Personal Development
"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."
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Personal Development
"Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't."
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"What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"
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"You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need."
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"If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest."
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"The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy."
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"Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find."
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"Learn to be a responder, not a reactor."
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"So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state."
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"A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again."
Perseverance
"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."
Life
"Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment."
Creation
"For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on."
Behavior
"The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from."
Psychology
"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time."
Emotion
"If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?"
Purpose
"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."
Success
"Being needed is a great thing. Maybe the great thing."
Purpose
"Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do- to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street."
Writing
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