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"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."
"Luck appears when you are working towards it, not looking for it."
"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better."
"I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there."
"All what you have to do is to accept, to be bold and open to the world and the world will open it's gates for you."
"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one."
"God gives absolutely everybody the opportunity to be successful in life."
"The present offers fresh opportunities."
"It's not about inviting great things into our lives. Rather, it's about accepting the invitation of great things to step out of our lives."
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"When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten."
"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."
"Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul."
"Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things."
"It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls."
"I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him."
"My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum."
"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."
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