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The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

Appreciate Been Brain Easier
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

About Chances Easier Find
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Alive Allow Also Become
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Natural Infant Painful Die
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

God Exercise Intellect Side
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The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Here Past Pleasant Better
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Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

Swearing Invented Fighting Compromise
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The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.

World Worse Usual Turning
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When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.

People Musical Comedy English
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

Adolescent Being Danger Humanity
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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Act Acting Battle Circumstances
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

Dead Fail Guilt Prevent
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
Atom Grasped Mount Mystery
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

Always Imitation Opponents Poor
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Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

Being Defend Dignity Europe
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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Common Extraordinary Great Make
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Given Greatest Make Man
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

Analyzing Career Got Ingredient
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

Accomplished Aim Fixed Gaze
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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Cannot Did Failures Get
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I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Breakfast French Ordered Restaurant
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I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.

Casual Circus Guy Head
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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

About Dictionary Everything Poem
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I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

Existential Here Map Over
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I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

Behind Brake Car Gas
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When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?

Kid Store Toy Train
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When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

Box Child Eventually Had
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In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

Argument Considered Got Long
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I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

Car Clown Died Funeral
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The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.

Alaska Got Missing Moved
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I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.

Buying Clothes Escalator Girl
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There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

People Power Store Trapped
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My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

Makes Meant Friend Noises
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Beautiful Feminine Masculine Men
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In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it

America Past Person Photographer
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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Body Cultivation Food Mind
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Ashamed Say Should Think
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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

About Considered Deaths Demeaning
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

About Affront Anything Cannot
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AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

Model Occupies Our Part
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Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

Any Disease Important Significance
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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Abstract Famous Independent Intensity
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Accelerate Beauty Become Change
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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

AIDS Consequences Having People
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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams

Dream Life Interpret Looking
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It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Altogether Bad Interesting Less
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Ideas Intelligence Kind Really
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Deeply Feared Most Suffering
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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Attainment Existence Flux Future
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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Anything Catastrophe Changing Heading
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