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We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Alone Circus Die Love
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

Asked Fits Life Once
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The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
Against Fear Humor Thing
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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Photograph Words Work Writer
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

BecausCaught Either Fail Master
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When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

Bad Basically Hard Hustle
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Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

Caught Disease Glad Sometimes
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It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

Begin Fail Lie Poem
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When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.

Best Chose Ears Everything
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I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

Alive Definite Largely Magic
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My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.
Cat Love Moment Quiet
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Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

Away Beautiful Better Feel
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I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

Automobiles Conversations Faces Feet
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Death Laugh Live Lives
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A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.

Strong Cat Forces Itself
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Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Life Literature Those Writing
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Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Contemplate Existence Moral
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Heart Hurts Never Temper
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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Aims Heart Always Devoted
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The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Between Constructed Construction Created
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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Another Brave Communication Electric
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Concentrate Determination Diligence Done
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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Business English Great Principle
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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Attached Close Conceal Heart
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Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Credit Dressed Spirits Good
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Beauties Changes Easy Every
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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Answer Baby Born Complete
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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Arrangement Attire Great Seldom
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Better Heart Human Strings
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Creature Fact Human Mystery
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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Grey Hairs Natural Property
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Appetites Conquered Human Nature
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Better Done Ever Far
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Answered Home Magician Name
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Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

China Cows Entirely Farm
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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Coat Dignity Holiness Imagine
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Great Melancholy Men Poor
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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Ability Any Awesome Beings
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It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Beliefs Events Lives Mean
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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Character Crucible Difficulty Forms
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We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

About Act Beings Determine
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You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

Attach Become Environment Events
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Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Begin Consistent Control Daily
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The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Control Controls Having How
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It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Decision Destiny Moments Shaped
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Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Around Eat Enough Here
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People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Goals Inspire Lazy People
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We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Age Entertainment Information Information Age
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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Doing Know Knowing Not Knowing
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The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Call Luck Meeting Offspring
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