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"You can't try to do things you simply must do them."
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"No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it."

"From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

"Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest."

"It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it."

"Their hands slapped library door handles together, their chests broke track tapes together, their tennis shoes beat parallel pony tracks over lawns, trimmed bushes, squirreled trees, no one losing, both winning, thus saving their friendship for other times of loss."

"Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love."

"I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye."

"We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam."
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"You can't try to do things you simply must do them."

"It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry."

"I never fight except against difficulties."

"Determined soul, willing spirit."

"I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her."

"It's up to you, not fate."

"Your personal declaration of will is the first step in a seemingly impossible journey."

"If your will is your deepest pure desires, then it will manifest in its own due time."

"The world needs gigantic strong wills in front of which even the mountains will be crumbled."
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