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I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.

Convey Story Particular Idea
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I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.
Every morning Early Sky Red
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Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Give Experience Knowledge Talent
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If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

Change Story Colour Create
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I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.

Happier Love Adore Husband
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Others have done it before me. I can, too.

Others Done I can
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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Clocks Slay Dread Clicked
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

End Wisdom High Seeking
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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

Shame Work Eight hours Eat
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible

Failed Dream Perfection Basis
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Aim Artist Motion Artificial
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

World Today Equality Color
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The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use. . . .
Writer Culture Country Fine
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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty

People Sympathetic Capacity Stronger
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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

Artist Listen Critics Reviews
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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
Man Moral Conscience Curse
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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them

Free Country Folks Send
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once

Mule Labor Patiently Privilege
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Dream Higher Bother Contemporary
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I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth
Wet Seed Hot Blind
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders

Memory Remember Believe Recollect
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If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything

Reincarnated Buzzard Envies Danger
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
Never Think Something Read
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Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Fact Truth Really Other
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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid
Writer Teach Basest Afraid
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Bother Contemporary Better
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The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies
Scattered Tea Leaves Sunset
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from

Found Greatest Problem Yourself
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I decline to accept the end of man.

Decline Accept Man
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Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

Given Choice Grief Nothing
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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Man Performs Engenders Bear
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The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.
Past Dead Fact
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Man will not merely endure; he will prevail

Man Merely Endure Prevail
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why
Artist Creature Demons Wonder
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There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

Something Jumping Fence Horse
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Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

Worse Gratitude Accept
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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
Inclined Think Military Background
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Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Tragedy Universe Physical Fear
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next

Sound Worthiness Earth Human
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It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died

Aim Effort History Life
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.

Existed Written Hemingway
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

Hollywood Place Stabbed Climbing
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Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

Board Honor Pride Decency
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If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The

Writer Mother Hesitate Grecian Urn
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
Tomorrow Nothing Sleepless Wrestle
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all

Gratitude Electricity Discharged
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color, is like living in Alaska and being against snow

World Equality Color Race
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We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Freedom Hierarchy Caste System
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and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forgot the words . . .

Sin Love Sound People
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid
Have Start Teaching Afraid
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