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"It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."
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"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"
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Personal Development
"When it is time for religion to vanish from the face of earth upon having finished its service of psychological reinforcement to humanity, Mother Nature will make that happen one way or another."
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"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."
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Personal Development
"America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving."
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Personal Development
"Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing."
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"A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a person can never set foot in exactly the same river on any given day, we are different each day. Yesterday made us, but the past cannot contain nor restrain us. We can never mentally scroll backward and be who we used to be. We must move forward in the stream of life until the day that our life force dries up and we return to dust."
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Personal Development
"We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably."
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Personal Development
"A small event as tiny as a drop of a pin can change the direction of your entire life."
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Personal Development
"Scholars postulate that the only thing that does not change is the every varying world. Other renowned thinkers postulate that the natural state of all things is to remain the same. Perhaps both propositions are vital. Perhaps it is normal to resist change because it threatens our present state of being. Perhaps it is natural to attempt to preserve the status quo because we are part of the external world and we wish to persevere, not expire. Perhaps it is inevitable that we all change. The natural forces are impossible to blunt."
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"That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things."
Woman
"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
Process
"Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique."
People
"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do."
Art
"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible."
Hope
"Language is a mixture of statement and evocation."
Language
"If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm."
Life
"Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms."
Life
"Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have."
Truth
"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye."
Perception
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