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"Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!"

"There are many you's within you, but all of them are still you! You are nothing but different you's!"

"Your self-worth is totally different from your net-worth."

"A model is an actor without a voice."

"Life can be generous, but leaves us with a trilemma: How can we reconcile three diverse features: 'I', 'me' and the 'others'. Since the "I entails what I want; the "me what others expect of me and the "others what others themselves want. The bridges between "individuality", "surroundings and "otherness" can be abysmal and very often waiting to be restored. ['I am on my own side, but I can listen ']"

"We are what we remember. If we lose our memory, we lose our identity and our identity is the accumulation of our experiences. When we walk down the memory lane, it can be unconsciously, willingly, selectively, impetuously or sometimes grudgingly. By following our stream of consciousness we look for lost time and things past. Some reminiscences become anchor points that can take another scope with the wisdom of hindsight. ['Walking down the memory lane']"

"Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else."

"She was dressing for the life she wanted, not the one she had."
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"No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought."

"The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible."

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on."

"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him."

"May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the front room where the kittens are kept, Calico Jane is nursing one black kitten. I pick up my Tourister. It seems heavy. I look inside and there are her other four kittens."Take care of my babies. Take them with you wherever you go."

"Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive."
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