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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

Anything Big Just Man
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Any Did Forties Friends
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Hero Me Show Tragedy
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

Because Say Something Want
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

Cut Exclamation Joke Laughing
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

Cards Carefully Girl Great
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Both Find Hands Lucky
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Chemical Dream Everybody Form
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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

About Been Drunk Library
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

American American Women Bewildered Faces
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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
Charm Combined Distinction Fascinated
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

Begin Country End Few
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

After Except Life Love
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Career Decent Ever Founded
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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

About Being Danger Depressing
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Bluff Charming Depths Heads
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

Before Met People Rude
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Consciousness Few First Great
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Against Hope Hopes Last
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Art Contempt Great Great Art
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Between Difference Intelligence Me
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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Arthritis Connection Different Discouragement
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Cheat Come Conditions Deeper
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Afterwards Always Critics Ever
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Being Cannot Gets Good
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Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

Any Magic Science Sufficiently
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

Able Believe Define Everyone
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I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

About Actress Complain Dumb
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I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

Content Even Feet More
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If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

Domain God Hack Server
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Life is like an analogy.
Analogy Life Like
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

Consists Fingernails Hanging Largely
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No one pays me to be nice.
Nice Pays One
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The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

Analysis Itself Thing Not
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

Awful Between Comedy Difference
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

Chest Heart His Man
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There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

People Them Two Types
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
First Refuge Violence Violent
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My name is Linda Ikeji and my time is different from yours. Just because you are not where the society said you should be at this point in your life, doesn’t make you late. It makes you ‘YOU’.

Life Late Make Point
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One of the things that prevent us from happiness is observing others and wishing we were in their shoes.

Shoes Others Prevent One
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Sometimes stop what you are doing and smell the flowers. It could help you focus on the significant and truly see what matters the most.

Stop Most Truly Focus
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Giving up is what most people do when it gets tough, if you don’t go through hardship, what story will you tell when you succeed.

Succeed Story Tell Giving
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Young people need to know that the beginning is always tough but you need to ride the tide.

Young Ride Tide People
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You are way more powerful than you know. So keep fighting, keep believing, keep working. Work until your idols become your rivals.

Way Rivals Idols Work
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When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure you are always blessed in abundance.

Focus Being Abundance Blessed
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Dear young ladies, please be patient. Please you really can make it through hard work.

Young Dear Work Really
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Doing things right is a challenge but doing things right consistently is a greater challenge.

Right Challenge Greater Things
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The battle against failure is real but you have to learn to confront your fears and look at failure as a temporary setback.

Battle Failure Setback Learn
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Never be afraid to change the plan. It’s not too late to start planning now, if you have not started.

Afraid Plan Late Start
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At every stage in your life, you always have to know when you need to “Transition” to the next phase of your life.

Stage Life Know Next
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