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"Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world."
"We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute."
"The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place."
"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
"If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft."
"It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more."
"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"
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"The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure."
"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."
"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."
"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings."
"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."
"Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it."
"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."
"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."
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