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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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"Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream."

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

"There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!"

"For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!"

"Don't get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles!"

"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"
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"People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work."


"There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form."


"To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding."


"The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable."


"Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words."


"When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."


"The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles."


"There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience."
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