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"I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me."

"To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday."

"Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life and to a certain extent sacred."

"I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced of why I must retire for the day."

"Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!"

"An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm."

"I went down to Safeways, and I bought her a packet of best ground sirloin."

"Wake up early, do your best, practice self-care, and finish strong."
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"I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm."

"Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all."

"You are born, go to school, and attend university in search of a husband. You get married - even if he is the worse man in the world - just so that others can't say no one wants you. You have children, grow old, and spend the end of your days watching passersby from a chair on the sidewalk, pretending to know everything about life yet unable to silence the voice in your heart that says: "You could try something else."

"You're not trying to find the answer to a question, you're simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe: that everyone is evil."

"People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower on a field, you will keep it forever, because the flower is part of the evening and the sunset and the smell of damp earth and the clouds on the horizon."

"Basically, everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality."

"They are so very cultivated, so very rich and so utterly charming. At the end of each day, they all ask themselves: 'Is it time I stopped?' And they all reply: 'If I did, there would be no meaning to my life.'As if they actually knew what the meaning of life was."
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