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Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
Be Expects Fool Happy
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We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.

Artists Belief Delightful Given
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Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Art Ashamed Author Belief
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May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
Down Feel Help Hoping
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The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

Also Difficult Himself His
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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
Communal Defend Doctrine Every
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Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Achievements Been Before Century
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I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

Absolutely Am American AmericanWay
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In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

Become Clear Everyone Greater
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

An anarchist Politics Impressionist
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Any experiment that can benefit by one hairsbreadth any single human life is a thousand times worth trying.

Any experiment Hairsbreadth Human life
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Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

Against Conservatives Early Government
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As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

Back Building Country Elections
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Three things Human life Important
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There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

AllThings Conservatism Constitution Describing
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Man Pretends Understand Women
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
I hold Sufficiently justified Love
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

Right time Lucky Have
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Art Makes life Makes importance Substitute
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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

Kill Human being.injury
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Military men Dumb Stupid animals
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Power Ultimate
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Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
Too ambitious Most important Care
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.

Issues Important Voters
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In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality

Appearance Power Important Reality
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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

Thank you Applause Humble
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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tepmts empty posturing.

Power Legitimacy Tempt tests Strength
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

Adversity Reason Benefit Sober reflection
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ONLY BELIEVE, even when it looks impossible to you, BELIEVE. God can do ANYTHING.

Believe Impossible Anything God
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Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Every Film Great New
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That dream in you; that great idea, that great vision, the talent buried within you - implement this year. Don’t be afraid to take that leap of faith. Fear hinders your reaching your maximum potential. This year, go for your dream, implement your idea and let that talent manifest in Jesus name

Dream Great vision Talent Afraid
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Our God is too faithful & when you seek Him, you find Him. All we need in this life is in the Bible. The word of God has everything

God Faithful Seek him Find him
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The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

Appreciate Garden Live Me
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I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.

All Day Around Because Bed
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I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.

About Age Any Anyone
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You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a long time. I weigh the words and the sentences. I weigh the paragraphs. The process is much more meditative for me.

Around Carry Certain Certain Point
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When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be interested in the earth if you live in a place like this. I started to read a lot of geology, much to the horror of my friends.

Became California Earth Friends
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At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

Adored Associate Enormous Everyone
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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

Days Dignity Find Happens
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I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

About Army Done Her
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The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Emily Experience Great Imagination
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There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.
Only Problems Time-Consuming Ones
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I attended seminars where many social issues were discussed abstractly, outside the pressures of an immediate situation, and there I developed certain attitudes which permitted me to face the real thing when it came along.

Along Attended Attitudes Came
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A person on dialysis undergoes very heavy and irritating treatment, and in time, it seems more than you can bear.

Bear Heavy Irritating More
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I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on. It's a feast.

Characters Defined Explanation Feast
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Whenever I start a book, I swear it's going to be a short one. But then it's, 'Who was his grandfather? And how did he get there in the first place? And what kind of animals is he chasing?'

Animals Book Chasing Did
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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Above Aim Devote Legitimate
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Achievement Acorn Angel Bird
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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Being Choice Every He
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Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
Circumstances Him Make Man
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