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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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"No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."
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"Happy are those who evolve from within."
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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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"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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"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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"I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know."
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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 was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943."
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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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"Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession."
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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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"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 respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager."
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