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Quotes by Writer
"Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies."
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"Public opinion is a second conscience."
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"Just because you've made mistakes doesn't mean your mistakes get to make you. Take notice of your inner critic, forgive yourself, and move on."
62
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
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"It takes a lot of courage to push through hard times. Never give up. Good things are coming your way."
62
"Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities."
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"We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted."
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"Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else."
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"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."
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"Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price."
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"It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away."
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"Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control."
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"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."
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"The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping."
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"You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do."
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"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others."
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"Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind."
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"Inaction only makes a task more daunting in your eye. Act quickly, before you overthink, get anxious or give up."
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"Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion."
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"This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs."
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"Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals."
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"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."
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"Belief is the death of intelligence."
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"I know, too, why she asked me not to forget her. Naoko herself knew, of course. She knew that my memories of her would fade. Which is precisely why she begged me never to forget her, to remember that she had existed. The thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow. Because Naoko never loved me."
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"The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have."
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"The essence of love is kindness."
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"Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all."
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"Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it."
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"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone."
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"Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim."
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"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn."
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"If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other."
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