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"Writing is work. It's also gambling. You don't get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you're on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don't whine."
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"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."
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"Joblessness gives you time to grow."
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"When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's."
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"Your professional experience can strengthen your resume, increase your earning potential, prove dependability, instill trust, and open new doors of opportunity which would remain closed otherwise."
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"Losing your job shows you the worth of your time rather the worth of money."
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"Use your passion to create a job."
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"An entrepreneur sells his thoughts and ideas as a packaged product."
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"Do not complain about two things; your job and your position, because you can always change them."
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"Joblessness gives you the resource through which you can create a new you."
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"Getting fired from work is not a tragedy."
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"All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard."
Humor

"For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go."
Creativity

"Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along."
Imagination

"We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?"
Hope

"Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that shone once with such anguish and glee and throw them over the bridge, watching the smash, orange, as they hit below, We were standing underneath when you told it. People do that with themselves when they are finished, light scooped out. He landed here, you said, marking it with your foot.You wouldn't do it that way, empty, you wouldn't wait, you would jump with the light still in you."
Mortality

"A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant."
Creativity

"This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember afterwards."
Love

"How did the war creep up? How did it gather itself together? What was it made from? What secrets, lies, betrayals? What loves and hatreds? What sums of money, what metals?"
Conflict

"Could it be he was feeling a certain nostalgia for the war, despite its stench and meaningless carnage? For that questionless life of instinct?"
Emotion

"Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck."
Emotion
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