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I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Think Rule Worst Risk
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There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

Positive Relationship Task Time
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If you change nothing, nothing changes.

You Change Nothing
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Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.

Dreams Come true
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Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.
Studies Quality Successful Persistence
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They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.

Money Everything
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When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner.

Forgive Gain Strength Winner
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Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.

Happiness Life's Invisible
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The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

More Want Reason
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In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

Places Limits Find
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Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.

Men Self-made Wife Children
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I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.

Believe Luck Good fortune
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Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

Attitude Happier Money Success
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When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window.

Success Love Window
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A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

Person's Self-concept Core Personality
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The best revenge is living well without you.

Best Revenge Living well
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Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

Loneliness Starvation Hungry Eat
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A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

Daydreamer Prepared
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Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted? If it were not for language, could we lie?

Language Insrument Trusted Lie
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Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.

Love Trust Possibility
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Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.

Betrayal Wound Love
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I never change, I simply become more myself.

Change Simply Myself
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The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

Worst Give Exchange Love
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Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.
Light Hopeful heart Expect Worst
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Every scar in my face is worth it.

Scar Face Worth
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Death is just the last scene of the last act.

Death Scene Act
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Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read

Read Apology Someone
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We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

Linked Blood Memory Language
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The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

Ideal art Noblest Life Doubt
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Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion

Beauty Question Sight Illusion
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Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Love Hate Powerful
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I love insult, it's always honest.

Love Insult Honest
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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.

Reading Involuntarily Voice Soul
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Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.

Girl Life Addictive Live
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The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

Denial Language Suicidal Lives
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Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree.

Love Forgiveness Degree
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Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

Strange Light Darkness Complete
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Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

Society Picnic Individuals Enjoy
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If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Food Poetry
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Hating "The Great Gatsby" (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will be.

Hating Spitting You
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Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

Mind Imagines Eye See
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How crucial for us to rehearse the future, in words. Never to doubt that you will live to utter them. Never to doubt that you will tell your story.

Future Words Live Story
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In love there are two things - bodies and words.

Love Bodies Words
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Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

Writing Consequence Hunted Material
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I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end

Time Fixed Forgotten Misery
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Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

Writing Activity Bribe Suicide
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For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

Advantage Writer Invisible Power
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How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Lovely World Simply Look
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The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

Language Death Silence
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Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.
Art Expression Human spirit
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