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All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

Life Love Family Friends
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You cant spend your life apologizing.

You Life Apologizing
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Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Masculine Feminine Roles Socially
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I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

Gender Feminism Women Equality
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Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

Love Feeling History Vision
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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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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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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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Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

Society Exist Etiquette Century
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Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.
Generosity Gratitude Linked
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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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Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.

Mistake Comment Social grace
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I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

Live Money Love
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We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Time Dreams Imagination Reality
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Brave Human Laws Natural
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It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure

Better Destination Wish Departure
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If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant we may be saved

Instant Perish Saved
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Anything Man Imagine Real
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

Masters Necessity Teaches Best
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

Reality Facts Romantic Imagination
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
Chance Lost Present Last moment
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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

War Destroy Peace Man
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

Misfortune Friends Solitude Reason
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

Wisest Worst Beginning Surprise
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite

Existence Love Emotion Living
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

Human Mind Conceptions Supernatural
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we see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

Science Perfectible Theory Fresh
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

Impossible Obstacles Stronger Wills
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With time and thought, one can do a good job

Time Thought Good job
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

Presence Nature's Man Powerless
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

Solitude Isolation Painful Human endurance
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

Use Arguments Destroyed Force
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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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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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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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We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.

Best Light See
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There is the risk you cannot afford to take,and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

Risk Afford Take
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Leap, and the net will appear.

Leap Net Appear
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God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

God Handle Overestimate Underestmate
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