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"Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense."
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"You're not interesting in the least," she spat. "I don't need to be," I smiled. "That's what you need...And you're welcome to it."
"An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken!"
"Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there's that. I will crush them on wit."
"You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it."
"Just because everyone is behaving like a clown, it doesn't mean you have to join the circus."
"Be gentle, confident and action-oriented. Remember, your actions will make a difference."
"You are as the sun; the world is your stage; even without an audience, shine."
"You don't need to put on make-up to make you look pretty. All you need to do is put on a smile and that will make you pretty in anyone's book."
"Always act like you are the king of your own world that you created on the day of your birth. Enjoy your kingdom."
"Confidence is the beauty, kindness is the charm, style is the uniqueness and fashion is the mask."
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"The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you."
"I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion."
"I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think that moments of extremity, desires of escape, lead us to foreign languages--not those learned in schools, but those plucked from the human heart, the searing conditions of isolation. I did not have to be limited to my biography because of words, and I shared this with Faulkner, who invented new words and punctuation and expression and worlds. He utterly reshaped the world."
"When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them."
"Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation."
"I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success."
"Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!"
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