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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."
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"You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

"Life is the music of your soul, all you need to do is to listen hard."

"Belief driven by determination is one key factor governing whether what you pursue becomes real or not."

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."

"Like a new creature, maybe an angel, you have shocked everyone with such beauty."

"Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas-only I don't exactly know what they are!"

"All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story."

"I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life."

"Life is too big for small dreams."
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"When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get."


"Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean."


"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."


"I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better."


"I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of man's puny, inexhaustible, voice still talking! ...not simply because man alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because man has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion, sacrifice and endurance."


"If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies."


"I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."
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