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When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better.

Forgive Free Better Brighter
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Write Hear Idea Brain
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Love Great Hope Laugh
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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
Child Candy Library Best
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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, ‘I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.

Nature Mercy Snow Bikini
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I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Trust Love African Careful
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I never have written every day. When I’m writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

Sanity Pretend Book Writing
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers.

Smile People Love Home
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Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

Grace Lake Water Door
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We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood.

Flesh Blood Hunger Set
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If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Life Save Own First
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Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

Listen Hear Voice God
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A celebration of democracy or a deprecable apotheosis of an hemorrhaging plutocracy, cascading into a mobocracy with all the ossifying proclivities of a kakistocracy? With our “democracy” enveloped in a paraplegic crinkum-crankum, we must all rise up to bring to focal hiceps and biceps, Nigeria’s “Pluto-mobo-kakistocracy”…. Certainly not democracy!

Celebration Democracy Deprecable Apotheosis
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

Mother Always Intolerant Ignorance
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I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me – I didn’t know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn’t know it then, and I know more now.

Poem Back Write Surprise
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Fine Line Life Greedy
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You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Total Everything Heard Seen
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Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

People Grow Agem Space Parking
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Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.

Open Eye Beauty Around
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If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?

Long Enough Over War
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

Encourage Courtesy Accept Nothing
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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Pure Life Realize Art
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We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

Spend Hour Adoring Wise
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You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.

Forgive Much Stand Mean
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I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love.

Love Able Grateful Been
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When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.

Universe Brave Fun Intelligent
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It’s very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

Affair Hard Adult Respect
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When people see the laughing face, even if they’re jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.

Laughing Face Jealous People
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I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don’t mean sentimentality, I don’t mean mush. I mean that idea, that human beings are more alike than we are different.

Believe Scent Love Different
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It’s hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.

Truth Gain Lose Hard
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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

Sacrifice Great Want Able
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Finally Die Respect Self
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Seen Have Could Other
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When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Child Soldier General Monk
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.

Spot Sun Art Transform
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Artist Another God Only
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Pull Brain Eye Only
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People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

Age People Everyone Disease
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Law Think Indisputable Who
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When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

Talk Form Structure Cheap
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Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Serve Paint Door Open
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Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

Energy Potential Waste Average
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In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

Intention Count Reason Prove
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We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

Quality Disposal Sand Start
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All you have to do in life is go out with your friends, party hard, and look twice as good as the bitch standing next to you.

Life Party Bitch Friend
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The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.

Rule Dress Cute Short
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There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I'm that icon.

World Decade Iconic Icon
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I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.

Keep Last Think Anyone
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Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.

Serious Grown Being Relationship
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I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.

Voice Knew Always Front
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