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Quotes by Writer
"Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish."
75
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
74
"If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat."
74
"Respect yourself enough to let go of someone who doesn't see your worth."
74
"Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver."
74
"I was born anew, owner of my own darkness."
74
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73
"For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that's why I've put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. I'm no great runner, by any means. I'm at an ordinary " or perhaps more like mediocre " level. But that's not the point. The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be."
73
"I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else."
73
"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom."
73
"Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love."
73
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
73
"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."
73
"Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you."
73
"The universe is full of doors."
73
"Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe. Of course it's important to know what's right and what's wrong. Individual errors in judgment can usually be corrected. As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around. But intolerant, narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host, change form and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause."
73
"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated."
73
"Woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be."
73
"When you commit to doing something every day it is hard. It seems impossible and you want to quit but if you just hang in there you will see it gets easier. Every day you get a little stronger. Every day you try a little harder. There will be times when you want to quit. Your mind will tell you to stop. You need to persist. You need to continue trying every single day. And one day you will notice how easy it has become to do something that seemed so hard in the beginning."
73
"They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey."
73
"I'd love to be what I have been."
73
"I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly."
73
"I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story."
73
"Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire."
73
"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."
72
"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."
72
"I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?"
72
"One man in a thousand, Solomon says.Will stick more close than a brother.And it's worth while seeking him half your daysIf you find him before the other.---The Thousandth Man."
72
"Stop looking for a partner. Focus on your goals and rebuilding your life. The right person will eventually find their way to you."
72
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