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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Always Back Holding Lose
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

Ancestry Beyond Blurred Cannot
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Consciousness Delight Focused Gift
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In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

Beings Body Everyday Experience
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

Being England People Proud
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

Down Feel Letting People
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Confidence is a strength. Overconfidence is a weakness. Ambition is a strength. Over ambition is a weakness. Balance the scale, so you are always in the middle.

Confidence Overconfidence Weakness Strength
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Before God gave Moses a miracle, He asked him

Moses Miracle Hand God
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You may be broke, but that should not mean that you should also be broken.

You Broken Mean Broke
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A friend who cares, is more valuable than a friend who is rich and powerful.
Cares Friend Valuable Rich
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You don't have to die to go to hell. You can be righteous and live in hell on Earth.

Die Hell Righteous Earth
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Nigerians are naturally aggressive towards their business, but tend to be docile towards their government. However, hunger is gradually eroding their docility.

Nigerian Business Aggressive Docile
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

Ancient Countryside Earth Favourite
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

Big Business Getting Go
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

Been Begin Children Could
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

Art Contain Elements Error
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

Allegory Any Attempt Conscious
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It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
Folly Friend May Part
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

Almost Any As Far As Attention
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

Am Chapters Costs Could
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Been Chosen Heart Must
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

Child Feel Home House
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Short cuts make long delays.
Cuts Delays Long Make
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

Always Come Had Home
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All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Deep Does Frost Glitter
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

Been Business Foolish Grandeur
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Any Anything Even Fit
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Am Happy I Am Kind
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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

About By The Time Down Every
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He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

Accuse Agony Created Did
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

Enough Ground How Legs
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

Act Acted Actor Celebrities
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
Illiterate Lot Quite Read
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I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

Exactly Know Mean It
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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

Always Blue Ends Hell
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

Absolute Courage Having Nobody
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How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

Do You Know Going How Know
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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

Damn Girl Gives Late
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

Better Hard Much People
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

Admit Doing Even Hardly
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

Anyone Artist Concern Else
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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Anything Funny Nobody Practically
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

Artist Being Constantly Could
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You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

Bastards Cries Eyes Heart
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I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

Car Even God Horse
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
I Love I Write Just Like
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

Again Book Frozen Moment
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

Author Best Book Call
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

Act Been Closet Coat
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

Intend Like Myself Necessarily
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