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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
"I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free."
"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."
"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young."
"If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that."
"I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready."
"In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing."
"Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world."
"It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life."
"I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly."
"My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness."
"A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity."
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