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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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I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

Always Anyone Deeply Feel
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As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.

Action Before Dive Down
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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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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

Abyss Black Delving Fascination
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What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

Beauty Does Everything He
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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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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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Serving God passionately is the apogee of purpose.

Purpose God Serving
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Everything in your life; your relationships, work, aspirations must assist in reaching your purpose in life.

Assist Work Life Reaching
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How you manage your finances can position you for failure or success as far as your dreams are concerned. Spend wisely.

Wisely Dream Far Failure
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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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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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You must question everything to ensure they’re assisting you in ultimately fulfilling your purpose. Be quick to leave behind anything hindering you from moving towards your purpose in life.

Life Towards Ensure Question
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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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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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Successful Woman Better Job
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

Nas
Anybody Artist Classical Rapper
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I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.

Nas
According Changed Had How
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.

Nas
Achievement Amazing Ask Enough
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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.

Nas
Divorce Divorces Easy Get
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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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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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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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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

About Am Because Could
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I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

Am Anything Down Dream
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You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

Nas
Crazy Everybody Out Please
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.

Accomplishment Concluded Discrimination Elegant
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

Decrease Happiness Human Human Happiness
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

Associated Darkness Fancy Horror
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The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.

Dramatic Element Great Great Part
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

Nas
Able Being Blessed Career
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In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.

Achieve Always Atmosphere Belongs
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.

Accustomed Air Any Awe
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Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

Nas
Any Be Prepared Beast Crazy
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

Able Accomplish Away Christianity
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

Nas
Doing Easy Every Every Time
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.

Affects Concealed Conflict Discoveries
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When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.

Nas
America Basically Dead Hip Hop
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.

Am Being Beings Conceive
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.

About Anything Hint Impressive
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The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.

Actual Agreement Attempts Deserves
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

Heroic Interruptions Judicious Just
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We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.

Allow Altered Any Been
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

Nas
Africa Been Going Has Been
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