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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
What Mankind Talent Purpose
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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Triumphs Crowds Hearts Sole
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Adored Became Because Been
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What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Past Future Men Virtue
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Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

Detest Most Thing Bigotry
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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Agonizing Fine skin Vanity Application
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Best Could Did Had
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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Surest Evidence Friendship Display
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

About Anything Away Because
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In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.
Everything Novel Resist Tell
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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Anger Ventilated Forgiveness Concealed
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I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

Been Far Give Given
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There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

Nothing certain Life Lose
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A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Reform Correction Abuses Revolution
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I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
Feel I Feel Life My Life
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

Awhile Bliss Cafe Idea
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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
Jewel Prize Joy Striving
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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

Best Class Classes Find
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O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility

Sure Learn Man Humility
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No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

Business Business Side Couple Extra
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

Because Dreamt Fame Fame Thing
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The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

About Day Few Hard
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

Always Basic Decided I Write
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Journal Keep Longer Never
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Did Give Good Good Writing
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I am the freest author in the world.
Am Author I Am World
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I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

Anyone Christianity Convert Did
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It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Belief Believe God I Think
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I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

Any Form Fundamentalism Opposed
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

Felt Had Head Lone
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I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.

Believe Charity Solidarity Vertical
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The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.

Science Church Machine Advertising
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We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
Mortal First kiss Second Glass
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I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire

Never Killed True Courage
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I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.

Particularly Interested Saving Time
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If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.

Past Present History Sleeping
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For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.
Sailor Love Wind Memory
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Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others

Single One Deserves Celebrated
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In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.

World Powerful Subjugated Wraith
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There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge.

Believe Destiny Gods Truth
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If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are
Grape Wine Words Tell
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Religious disintegration began with colonization.

Religious Disintegration Colonization
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Perfection shall remain the boring privilege of the gods, while our bungling, messy world every night shall be lived as if it were the last and every day as if it were the first.

Perfection Remain Privilege Gods
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The food of the minority is the hunger of the majority.
Food Minority Hunger Majority
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Don’t you see? There were no doctors in Paradise. Disease came after doctors.

Doctors Paradise Disease
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If women were necessary, God would have one.
Women Necessary God One
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If thats how it was done, and thats how it had always been done, there had to be a reason

Done Always Been Reason
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Those who make objectivity a religion are liars. they are scared of human pain. They dont want to be objective, it's a lie: they want to be objects, so as not to suffer.

Make Objectivity Religion Liars
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Never forget someone who has opened a door or created space for you… no, you don’t necessarily owe them your life or eventual success… but don’t forget: Gratitude is everything, and only creates more opportunity.”

Forget Opened Created space Gratitude
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A broken life does not have to be your story. You can be free.

Broken Life Story Free
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