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Personal Quotes
"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything."
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"I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine."
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"I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream."
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"No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk."
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"I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton."
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"Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad."
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"Life is worthwhile when you walk on a path aligned to your purpose."
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"Giving is the highest expression of potency."
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"I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know."
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"An unceasingly grateful life can easily heal from the wounds of hurt and setback. It can also easily shed resentment, hate, and bitterness."
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"For a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had."
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"Happy are those who evolve from within."
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"You shouldn't allow people who hurt you to occupy a fraction of your heart. Forgive and move on, especially in this season of thanksgiving."
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"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think."
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"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."
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"And even if you cared what they had to say, would you act upon their opinions and create your life from it? No. Than stop replaying their toxic words in your head, it's no good for your being and start doing the things that once made you, you."
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"I love science fiction - always have."
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"Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession."
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"Do not, for one more minute, spend your precious time and energy on or surround yourself with people who are less than you deserve."
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"I don't talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me."
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"When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones."
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"Absolute freedom comes when we make the choice to wake up and master our individual minds, bodies, hearts, and spirits. When we have this true freedom, we no longer act upon our impulsive thoughts or emotions. We gain the capability of controlling them within ourselves, which unlocks our greatest potential to create, transmute, and transcend the Mundane reality."
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"How do you know whether you're serious about your values? You fight for them when they're violated even if it costs you title, favor, friendship, and profit."
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"I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse."
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"Some lessons are learnt the hard way, but worth it."
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"And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too."
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"She wanted her life back and that was mainly because of Vadim. She was a man she didn't want to leave. Even if her first instinct had been to flee, the time for running was over. She wouldn't live in fear forever."
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"Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager."
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"The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal."
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"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."
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