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Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Capacity Choose Freedom Human
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Conformity Courage Cowardice Opposite
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The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.

Arises Both Capacity Dilemma
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The emergence of the Atomic Age brought the previously inchoate and 'free-floating' anxiety of many people into sharp focus.

Age Anxiety Atomic Brought
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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Being Eat Eaten Enough
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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

After Another Face Find
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Being Being Rich Live People
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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Generation Only Readers Span
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The newest books are those that never grow old.
Books Grow Never Newest
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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Accept Advice Give Great
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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Drudgery Involves Love Test
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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

Behave Charm Charming Edge
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People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Before Bright Faint Feel
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There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

Avail Few Good However
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What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Courage Feel Missed More
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Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

Entirely Income Matter Temperament
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Author Cell Chained Every
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What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Author Good He Like
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

Acquaintances Boast Complain Kinds
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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Abyss All My Life Been Bottom
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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
Art Fury Movement Must
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

Baldness Far Felicity Imagine
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The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

Bewildered Know Old Sad
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Happiness Insipid Rarest Seems
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Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

Enjoy Go Gone Heaven
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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

Behavior Bottled Essence Labels
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I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

Future planing Doing tomorrow Past
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If you're just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow

Just safe Choices Make Don't grow
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I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.

Kid Years old Wanting Get up
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A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

Gilded Mediocre Talent Tomb
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You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.

Learn more Yourself Child
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Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Conscience Good Live Most
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I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.

Only do Having fun Walk away
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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Affections Amusement Flat Friendly
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In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.

Hold Someone Intimidated
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It can be a little distressing to have to over intellectualize yourself.

Little distressing Have Over intellectualize
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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

Beautiful Houses Like People
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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Acts Amusing Dying Find
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I like to do something I fear.
Do something Fear
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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Aspirations Drop People Tell
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I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.

I like Set up Obstacles Defeat
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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Both Discover God Out
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There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Few Matters Minds One Thing
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I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.

Naturally funny Enjoyed Spotlight
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Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

Coming Danger Many Nightmares
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When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.

Started Watch Films Movies
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I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am.

More cautious My choices Reflects
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Almost Bad Body Chill
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I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

Have Forward planning Future
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My life is together, both professionally and socially.

My life Professionally Socially
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