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Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

Becoming Big Big Companies Companies
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Anything Everything Gets Got
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I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Ability Be Humble Became Countries
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Diligence Fortune Good GoodFortune
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I'm kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I'm always hot.

Always Big Get Hot
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Advantage Danger Fear Fears
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If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Care Don't Care Else Everyone
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I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

College Finish Fit Get
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You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

Artistic Bored Creative Disappointed
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Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

After Day Easy Every
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Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

African African American American I Love
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Agents Circumstances Creature Creatures
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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Always Both Career Genres
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To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Advantage Class Community Plunder
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Ages Experience Quotations Wisdom
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I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Am Biggest I Am Influenced
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In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

Also Any Because City
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I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'

Book Fewer Here Like
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I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence, well written, can have a very moving effect without that person knowing why. There's a deep genetic part of you that somehow, even without your permission, recognizes good language when it arrives.

Aware Deep Effect Even
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Conscious Facts Great Ignorant
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

Change Constant Country Inevitable
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Advantage Important ImportantThing Know
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

Cottage Happy Palace Safe
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Age Agree Chastity Filth
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Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

Be Brave Bed Brave Desire
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

Anticipate Expect Generally Happens
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

Think Yourselves Others Privilege
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Person Virtue Age Loss
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Forbidden Kill Murderer Punished
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
God Created Own.image Reciprocated
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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

General Government Consist Money
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I have a little spa at home. I put together a room where I get massages, pedicures, manicures. It's comfortable in my own home, and it's very private. It's very relaxing.

Comfortable Get Home Little
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I don't have a nanny. I have a chef, and I have my assistant, and that's it. I do it myself. You know, those hours with your child are really important ones, even if it's just the two of you, being quiet in the car together.

Assistant Being BeingQuiet Car
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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Always Oblige Speak
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My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English.
America Better Come English
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You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are.

Cannot Change Person Them
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I think the mistake some people make is they try to change the man they love after they get married. You cannot change a person.

After Cannot Change Get
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One thing I love most about New York is the variety of amazing foods you can eat. My all-time favorite is the Chicken Parmigianino at Jean Georges.
About All-Time Amazing Chicken
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I have been with Donald for 18 years, and I have been aware of his love for this country since we first met. He never had a hidden agenda when it comes to his patriotism because, like me, he loves this country so much.

Agenda Aware Because Been
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After living and working in Milan and Paris, I arrived in New York City 20 years ago, and I saw both the joys and the hardships of daily life. On July 28, 2006, I was very proud to become a citizen of the United States - the greatest privilege on planet Earth.

After Arrived Become Both
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Yes, Donald thinks big, which is especially important when considering the presidency of the United States. No room for small thinking. No room for small results. Donald gets things done.

Big Considering Donald Done
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Everyone wants change. Donald is the only one that can deliver it. We should not be satisfied with stagnation.

Change Deliver Donald Everyone
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If I am honored to serve as first lady, I will use that wonderful privilege to try to help people in our country who need it the most. One of the many causes dear to my heart is helping children and women.
Am Causes Children Country
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You judge a society by how it treats its citizens. We must do our best to ensure that every child can live in comfort and security, with the best possible education.

Best Child Citizens Comfort
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As citizens of this great nation, it is kindness, love, and compassion for each other that will bring us together - and keep us together. These are the values Donald and I will bring to the White House.

Bring Citizens Compassion Donald
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Early in my modeling career, when I was a teenager, I really took care of my skin. I didn't get too much sun exposure, and I moisturized.
Care Career Early Exposure
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I take people the way they are. You could work all your life to change them, and they never will. What's the point? They need to be who they are.

AllYourLife Change Could Life
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I think is important to give a child room to make mistakes in order to learn. Mistakes build wings so later in life they can fly and go on their own. Let them fall once in awhile... Be their friend and parent as well. When they're in trouble, they will come to you first. Don't try to change their opinion.

Awhile Build Change Child
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God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

Act Agency Choose Free
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People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living.

Anchor Firm Get Hold
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