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The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

Language Death Silence
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Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

Writing Loneliness Privacy Freedom
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Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

Art Freedom Expression Ideal
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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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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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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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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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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

Masters Necessity Teaches Best
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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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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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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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Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

Procastination Laziness Fear Forgive
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We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

Thinking God's Will Dream
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Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

Creativity Moment Timeless
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Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention

Survival Sanity Delight Gift
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Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

Artist Visionaries Faith Creative goal
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Creativity requires activity…And most of us hate to do something when we can obsess about something else instead.

Creativity Activity Hate Obsess
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Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it

Believe Begin Action Power
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Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst.

Friendships Formed Best Worst
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The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

Older Fragile Life Motivation
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Babies aren't really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had.

Babies Born Parents Dream
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Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

Knowledge Flowed Kings Slaves
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The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.

Penetration Society Internet Civilisation
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You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you

Informed Rulers Ignorant Someone
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Consistency was a matter of style and values-not where you parked your car

Consistency Style Values
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Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.

Law Decision Knowledge History
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Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.

Working Music Funnest Love
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I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

Think People Rules Creative
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I’m not a fighter by nature, but, if I believe in something, I stand up for it.

Fighter Nature Believe Stand up
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There’s gonna be times in life when people tell you that you can’t, that’s when you just gotta turn around and say watch me.

Life Times People Turn around
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