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"There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers."
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"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."
"The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
"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."
"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose."
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."
"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"
"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
"Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world."
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"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear."
"There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale."
"Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."
"Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values."
"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed."
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