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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 always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream."
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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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"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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"Giving is the highest expression of potency."
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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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"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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"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."
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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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"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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"But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else."
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"Happy are those who evolve from within."
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"I love science fiction - always have."
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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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"I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know."
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"You want to know what I want? I'm sick of being a guinea pig. I'm sick, but I'm never f*cking sick enough for this family."
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"I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them."
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"I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse."
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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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"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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"Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction."
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"I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943."
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"I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself."
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"Some lessons are learnt the hard way, but worth it."
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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 have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts."
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"Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want."
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