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"I've never made plans for more than a day ahead."
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"The window of opportunity is always open, just you have to find it."
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"Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists but the possessor of ignorance shall always be ignorant of opportunities."
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"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner."
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"Today is the day you've been waiting for."
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"Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him."
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"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."
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"You must explore the timeless opportunities in life."
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"It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict or foresee everything that was going to happen, you'd lose the motivation to go through it all. The promise was always in the possibility."
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"There will never be another day such as this one, with all the variables of life combining in such a way to form this opportunity. So don't let it go, grab it."
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"There's a profit attached to every problem. Find it, face it and fix it."
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"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."
Joy
"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."
Beginning
"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."
Now
"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."
Truth
"I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book."
Reading
"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep."
Interest
"I love devils."
Love
"I do not see any beauty in self-restraint."
Beauty
"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."
Literature
"Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest."
Criticism
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