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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Better Unhappy Know Worst
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Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

Life Matters What Life
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Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

Learning Love Hard Pay
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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

You Wish Glimpse Inside
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When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

Down Something Always Turns up
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
You Can Sincere Still
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Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

Yes Right Love Should
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Nothing Easier Than Denounce
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Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

Love Children Especially They
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

Two Emotions Plane Boredom
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Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

Suffering Part Parcel Extensive
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?

But Could Live No
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I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

Think But Devil Doesn't
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The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

Most Offensive Their Lying
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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

Affected Aging Challenges Creates
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My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.

My Wife Try Get
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

Become Festival Inspired Kids
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My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

Big Thing Make Sure
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One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.

One Day Year Old
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

Hand Like Long Still
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I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

About Between Books I Think
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When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

Left Maine Always Working
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

Look Forward Time Career
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

Effects Other Subtle Travel
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

About Books I Love Journeys
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!

Hate Shaving Much Easier
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

Best Part About Being
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

College Come Know Love
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The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.

Worst Part About Married
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

Course Fascinated God Grew
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The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.

Hardest Thing Having Kids
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

Always Better LoAlways Better
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I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.

Started Juggler Used Half
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My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

Art Central Fact Father
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When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.

Beach Book Came Couple
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.

Play Golden Pond I
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I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.

Think Tv More Writer
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

Sure Have If Political
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

Drama Easier Do Because
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I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.

Physical Like Comedy Old
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Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

Nothing Else Matters Much
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My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Am Cheek I Am Kind
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As obvious as it sounds, I strongly recommend shopping at a specialty bike store. They are the experts, and they will be able to help you decide which bike is best for you.

As Obvious Sounds Strongly
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.

With Bikes Absolutely Case
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The sex drive is the most important and powerful behaviour in mankind.

Sex Important Behaviour Mankind
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People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

People Intelligent Well Known
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A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
How Not Prison Judged
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Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

Show Me Desire Shows Something
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

People Great Love Hate
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I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
Air Around Feet Just
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