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Quotes by Author
"The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own."
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"A glorious life is a life live with gratitude."
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"I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?"
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"Is it really so terrible being around us?"I blushed. "No," I said. "But . . . it's complicated. I've been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake.""The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do."
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"The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate."
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"Never look at an opportunity at face value & pass it on that basis. Examine the income vs. the profit vs. expenses then make your decision."
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"A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need."
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"Through dreams and ideas we are seduced to go back to particular places and instances of our past. In the course of the years, these singular moments and spaces of our history very often receive then another color and dimension. Our mind tries however to tame and keep in control the phantoms of times past. If not so, our memory can be subject to an irreversible mutilation. ['The mutilated memory']"
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"No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness."
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"My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years."
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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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"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated."
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"When we don't have money, we're sure having it will solve all our problems. When we don't have a relationship, we're sure being in one will make us whole. When we don't have our health, we're sure being healthy will make us happy. We're so sure about what we don't have. What would happen if we were so sure about what we did have? Try it, it's called gratitude."
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"In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed."
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"The waste of any resource is unnecessary and deplorable."
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"One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real."
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"In that day an educated rich man was acceptable. He might send his sons to college without comment, might wear a vest and white shirt and tie in the daytime of a weekday, might wear gloves and keep his nails clean. And since the lives and practices of rich men were mysterious, who knows what they could use or not use? But a poor man""what need had he for poetry or for painting or for music not fit for singing or dancing?"
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"In love, as in life, one misheard word can be tremendously important. If you tell someone you love them, for instance, you must be absolutely certain that they have replied "I love you back" and not "I love your back" before you continue the conversation."
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"When time furtively slips like sand through the fingers and our memory becomes tired and lazy, we recognize we are at war. We are at war with forgetfulness. ['The past was her best friend']"
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"You may or may not make a million dollars in life, a song may not be sung in praise of you, monuments may not be erected in your name but promise me this: to live life fully, to give wholeheartedly, to do your best with what you have, to impact souls, to use your gifts and talents to serve humanity, to live, love and leave a legacy in your own way."
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"When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business " that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time."
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"Myths aren't fairy tales or legends-they're an honest attempt to explain mysteries..."
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"In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white," until later their true colors come out."
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"Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge."
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"Laughter is poison to fear."
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"Comes the tipping point in life, when we decide to a 'stop and search' and our emotional police bring us to a standstill. This allows us to scan all the little details in the spectrum of our being; scour all fuzzy or cryptic elements that are floating around in our mind and restore the fault lines in the cluttered tale of our life. ['The world was somewhere else']"
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"Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth."
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"When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words."
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"What does that quote mean to you? Can you explain the concept behind it and not just repeat the pretty phrase to me?"
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"Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long."
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"To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within."
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"The only way to get to know people is to look beyond their physical appearances."
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"The key point about life is that in the end nothing really matters."
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