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I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

American Average AverageAmerican BeHappy
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism. It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Good Write Kind Book
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For men led by the Colour, and the Shape, Like Zeuxes Birds fly to the painted Grape; Some things do through our Judgment pass As through a Multiplying Glass. And sometimes, if the Object be too far, We take a Falling Meteor for a Star.

Star Far Shape Falling
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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solace and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

My Heart Which Full
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

Hour Last Wish Past
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When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
Actress Five IThink Started
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

Once Bald Past Slip
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Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?

Creature Morals Drink Nature
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

Field Crowd Foolish Mirrors
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

Rival Bible Fears Hopes
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

Desire Give Nothing Reason
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

Asset Chief Ignorance
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The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

Burns Fire Novel Taught
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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Clocks Slay Dread Clicked
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible

Failed Dream Perfection Basis
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Capacity Ideas Images Love
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

World Today Equality Color
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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty

People Sympathetic Capacity Stronger
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Becomes Case Certain Epidemic
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

True Play Life Real
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Better Cases Composed Doubtful
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When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Feel Burning Demand Desire
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Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Master Makes You Yourself
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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid
Writer Teach Basest Afraid
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

Create Desires Earth Flows
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Also Art Before Consist
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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

Alchemy Although Considered Contempt
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The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.
Past Dead Fact
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Come Dreams Elements Fantasy
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Seed Magic Adversity Benefit
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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

Another Bread Country Different
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

About Account Basis Distress
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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Alchemy Astronomy Ethics Four
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

Begun Daddy Day Done
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

Belong Could Day Different
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Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Tragedy Universe Physical Fear
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next

Sound Worthiness Earth Human
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I'd been in love before - I was always in love.

Always Been Before Love
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I was the most subtle person in the world.

Most Person Subtle World
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If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The

Writer Mother Hesitate Grecian Urn
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color, is like living in Alaska and being against snow

World Equality Color Race
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We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Freedom Hierarchy Caste System
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Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window

Read Classics Bad
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The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.

Young man Forgotten Problems Heart
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Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
Ashamed Yourself Honest
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I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

Music Easiest Express Talent
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Always keep your words and your words will become like money to those you make promises to. If people know you always do what you say, then your words will have serious purchasing power

Always keep Word Money Promise
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It was beautiful and it was hell at the same time but it showed me all the lessons I needed to learn to face the world.

Beautiful Time Lessons Needed
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Yes. A few times actually but my mindset has always been

Mindset Die Bend Fold
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

Alone Attacks Because Body
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