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A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

Ready way Friend Lend Money
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There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

Distinguished Failure Trivially Flag
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The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.
Bachelors Freedom Freer Greater slave
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A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.

Broken heart Monument Love Fulfillment
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The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.

Sweetest memory Have done Bitterest
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A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs.

A poet Alchemist Transmutes Regarding human
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Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

Man Woman Mood Understand
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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
Pretty girl Stage Professional Undertakers
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It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

Cynicism Success Penetrating Valid
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I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

Many married Men Happily Fall down
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Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Windows Chandeliers Illuminates Enveloping darkness
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Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Politics Diversion Trivial men Important
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Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations

Always Around Brought Happiness
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To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Trusted Greater compliment Loved
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Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

Work Required Sacred idleness
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Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.

Her heart Fallen sides Inexhaustible fountain
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Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

Man finds Want God Gives
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Bad Experience Good Good Judgment
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Better Deadline Inspiration Negative
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Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

Afflliction Father wills Friend Frowns
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The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

Anybody Love Only People
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A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

Beast Know Nearer Man
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If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Logical Men Place Ride
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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

American Best Every Form
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Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

God Leaves Disputing
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Art Entertainment Married Moral
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It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Loving Being Nearest soul
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You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

Car Cliff Drives Like
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All that is not God is death.

God Death
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Bad Happiness Keys Memory
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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
Action Either Every Strong
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As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
Grow Somewhere Find Needful
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Action Fight Intellectually Life
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People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

People Believe Hard Seen
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If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

God Father work Limit Enlargement
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

Authority Believe Disrespect Forms
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Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

Work Business Universe Eyes
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

Balls Embarrassing Find Meeting
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You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

Learn Strong Dark Half brave
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Morals are private. Decency is public.

Decency Morals Private Public
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You doubt because you love truth.

Doubt Love truth
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

Bargain Believe Dollars I Believe
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I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

Thank you Care for Do better
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Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Entertainment Moral Passion Propaganda
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Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

Life Dream
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Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

Because Between Define Lesbian
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And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay

Life Richer Holding Memory
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Creativity Hope Instincts More
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Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.

Her face Pretty Eyes Night sky
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Alive Enjoy Figured Finally
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