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"Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage-however often we are hurt as a result of it."
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"He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
"You stand the risk of bankruptcy, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
"At least I'm not afraid, and no one will ever call me boring."
"Throw a warrior to the wolves and he'll return a conqueror."
"Fear makes people speechless."
"When the sails are strong a ship has no reason to fear turbulence."
"All great achievements of humanity begin with the madness of a few lion-hearts."
"Walking on water is safer than sailing in a leaking boat."
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"It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present, how much of daily life is usually spent making plans and attempting to control the future. Never mind that you have no control over it. The idea of the future is our greatest entertainment, amusement, and time-killer."
"I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am."
"I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other being good to each other."
"The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad."
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."
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