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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

About By The Time Down Every
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He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

Accuse Agony Created Did
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

Act Acted Actor Celebrities
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

Anyone Artist Concern Else
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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Anything Funny Nobody Practically
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You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

Bastards Cries Eyes Heart
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
I Love I Write Just Like
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

Author Best Book Call
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

Act Been Closet Coat
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I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

Aloof Doing Kind Known
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.

Actual Any Before Beginning
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Art Arts College Fine
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Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

Background Behind Hideous Know
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Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

Best Creation Deepest Emotion
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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.

Dare Myself Places Say
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

Dreams False Poets Tales
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We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

After Cats Dark Dogs
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

Ancient Dreams Memories More
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

Books Lore Men More
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

About Ask Business Dreams
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Understanding your purpose shapes the choices you make in life.

Life Choices Shapes Purpose
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The peace of God will guide your heart and mind in Christ. He said for us to be anxious for nothing. Know that God has every situation covered. Stay in prayer and let the peace of God flow into your life.

Life Flow Peace God
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God said His grace is sufficient and our strength is made perfect in weakness. Receive the grace of God and allow the power of Jesus Christ to rest upon you.

Rest Christ Power Jesus
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Lead a quiet life, mind your business and develop a strong work ethic. A frienzied lifestyle will not enhance your prospects of fulfilling your dreams.

Dream Lead Mind Life
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Leadership capacity will manifest in your ability to CREATE, MANAGE and GROW wealth.

Wealth Capacity Ability Manifest
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The way to fulfil your purpose is by sticking to the plan of God for your life. Find out what God wants you to do and devote your entire life to make it happen.

Entire Happen Life Fulfil
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If you truly know who you’re, you can never be associated with abuse. The greatest tragedy in life is to live without discovering and fulfilling the purpose for which you were created.

Abuse Truly Created Life
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Without an understanding of purpose, you’ll abuse anything and everything. May you find your purpose and fulfil it. Remember, the true measure of success is finding fulfilment in life.

Life Success True Abuse
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Life loses its significance and sense of value when you don’t know and identify your purpose. Once purpose is lost, moral boundaries disappear, and values are no more cherished.

Values Moral Lost Life
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In spite of the disappointment by close ones, your future and purpose will come to pass. The coming decade will be a season of shining and manifestation of your glory.

Glory Shining Decade Spite
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Instead of being an insignificant grain of sand, you must become a conspicuous mountain of fulfilment. Make fulfilling purpose your driving force against the odds that may come against you.

Come Driving Instead Against
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The way God designed you influences what you’re called to do. The combination of qualities in you determine what you’re supposed to become and the purpose you should be fulfilling.

Purpose Become Determine God
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The mistakes of your PAST cannot stop the greatness of your FUTURE. If you allow God into that mess, He’ll take all of that and work it out to fulfil your purpose.

Work Mess Allow God
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Everything that you’ve gone through will work for you if you keep hope alive. What you’ve gone through will give you the credibility and moral right to help others walking the same path.

Path Alive Moral Give
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Purpose gives your life direction and a goal. Without it, there will be no passion to live. When you lose your purpose, there will be confusion, frustration, discouragement and disillusionment.

Passion Goal Life Live
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Purpose is what gives life enthusiasm; it is the womb that enables the nurturing of ambitions until there is a fulfilment. It gives birth to anticipations and fuels the passion to accomplish a dream.

Life Dream Birth Womb
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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

Before Books Floor Furniture
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

Bunch Chosen Crime Dark
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'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.

Nas
Album Back Bringing Career
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

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Also Career Confidence Experience
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

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Divorce Divorces Easy Get
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

Nas
About Anything Being Faithful
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If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

Correct Could Create England
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

Nas
About Competitive Gets Hand
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
Demanded Enthusiasm Fear Flags
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

Accept Best Content Craves
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Black Far Ignorance Infinity
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

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Combination Feeling Me Soul
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All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.

Based Common Emotions Fundamental
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

Nas
About Anything Be Happy Being
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