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When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

Society Ideals People Behavior
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Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

People Think Technology Old
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Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

Honesty Privilege Insulting Redress
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The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

Greater Controversy Manners
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Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette

Freedom Rules Work Etiquette
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Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Enforce Morality Immorality Discreet
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We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Charming Fresh Civilized Society
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It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Impressive Discover Qualities Help
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Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.

Etiquette Defenseless Rudeness World
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People read informality as, 'Do whatever you feel like,' and whatever you feel like might be disastrous.

People Informality Feel Disastrous
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Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Hypocrisy Social Sin Virtue
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If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

Against Law Breach Etiquette
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Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

Society Exist Etiquette Century
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When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

Virtues Flaws Insurmountable
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Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

Ideological Differences Excuse Rudeness
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Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.
Generosity Gratitude Linked
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When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out of love you cite.

Love Put up Cite
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Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.

Life Passions Years Reading
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Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

Manners Consideration Human beings
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The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.
Way Excuse Rude Behavior
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Everybody's an art critic.

Everybody's Art Critic
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There is nothing like a good friend to help you out when you are not in trouble.

Nothing Good friend Help Trouble
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everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.

Everyone Old Secret Entitled
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Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.

Mistake Comment Social grace
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There are always proper responses, even to rude questions.

Proper Responses Rude Questions
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Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

Creativity Faith Control
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Serious art is born from serious play.

Serious Art Born Play
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Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

Art Progress Cherished
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The reward for attention is always healing.

Reward Attention Healing
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We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.
Experience Life Faith
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I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

Believe Want Write
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Creativity - like human life itself - begins in the dark

Creativity Human Life Dark
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The myth that we must have “time”—more time—in order to create is a myth that keeps us from using the time we do have.

Myth Time Create
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It’s not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Answer Enlightens Question
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The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product.

Trick Write Time Love
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Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.

Agendas Drain Life Relationships
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All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

Audacity Talent Artist Center stage
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Mystery Heart Creativity Surprise
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Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.
Anger Meant Acted upon
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As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.

You Move toward Dream
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You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you.

Work Spiritual Fact God
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Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

Writing Breathing Learn Point
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No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

Life Art Dream Creativity
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Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.

Art Thinking Opposite
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Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

Good Writing Clears Psyche
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We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.

Best Light See
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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

Judging Efforts Artist Abuse
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When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend

Feel Critical condition Treat Friend
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When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.

Walk Brains Converse
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We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

Idea Need Mood Write
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