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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Any Author Fiction Form
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Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Education Formal Formal Education Fortune
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To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Any Ask Could First
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Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Great Great Joy Greatness Himself
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You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Cannot Change Charge Circumstances
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

Chances Each Experience He
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I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.

Personally Faction Movie Ciniphiles
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
God Worshipping Idealized Yourself
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.” No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.

Jesus Cross Myself Loved
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As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

Almost Always Barbarian Condemnation
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The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

Fact Writer Experience Root
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I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

Destroy Nuclear Cataclysm Capacity
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I restore myself when I'm alone.

Alone Myself Restore
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A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.

Common Common Man Even How
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I love to be pushed so I can prove myself, because once again, I will.

Again Because I Can I Love
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We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.

Hustler Inspiration Building Bootstraps
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'Victory' is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It's just about reaching a place in myself.

Victory Question Songs Reaching
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The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

Complete Day Excuses Making
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When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.

Delusions Down Fastest Got
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I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.

Acting Arsenal Come Entertainment
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I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

Am Feelings Human IAm
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First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

Actress Convince First Maybe
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With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

About Day Day-To-Day Else
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Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

After Brighten Course Depend
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

Betray Rich Night Small
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

Rival Bible Fears Hopes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Dream Higher Bother Contemporary
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Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Master Makes You Yourself
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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid
Writer Teach Basest Afraid
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Bother Contemporary Better
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You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

True Choice Power Always
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from

Found Greatest Problem Yourself
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The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.

Young man Forgotten Problems Heart
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Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
Ashamed Yourself Honest
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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Asleep Away Because Fooling
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Affections Benevolent Constitute Exercise
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I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

More Afraid Own Heart
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

Life Myself Need Never
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Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
About According Being Being Yourself
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When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

Ask Filming Get Hours
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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

Mind Admirable Good Book
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I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Day English Every Every Day
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Advice Any Good Good Advice
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Asking Live Living Others
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Advice Always Any Good
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Give He Him Himself
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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

Ask Become Begin Experience
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Beginning Lifelong Love Oneself
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Bread Does Effort Force
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Dangerous Definition He Heart
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