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On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.

Anyone Brutal Business Chase
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Across Education English Getting
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Shifting towards low-carbon energy systems can avert climate catastrophe while creating new opportunities for investment, growth, and employment.

Catastrophe Climate Creating Employment
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

Book Boundaries Buy Creating
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Governments have to conclude a fair, universal, and binding climate agreement, by which every country commits to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Agreement Binding Climate Conclude
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

Because Change Deeds Fail
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Begin Change Disappearing History
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Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

Along Climbs Creative CreativePeople
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Achieved Alienation Beings Destiny
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Life Need Only Really Succeeded
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

Acquainted Actually Assume Become
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
Attacks Cannot Clearly Exterior
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People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Actor Because Day Fleeting
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.

Always Break Breeze Cooling
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
Above Contents Examining Mental
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
Any Approval Does Lion
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

Everything Existing Fact Filled
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.

Ally Along Even First
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Any Dead Living Precious
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

After Altered Changed Color
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

Above Against Arising Attack
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Bloom Blooms Constantly Dark
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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Art Arts Badly Bearable
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Anything Blind Job Kingdom
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Bound Freedom Living More
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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

Again Beings Cancer Communities
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

About Anyway Beethoven Compose
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Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.
Extremely Implications Moral Scientists
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I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.

Am Artists Arts Been
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I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.

Always Been Brought Chemistry
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
Bad Bad Ones Good Lies
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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Access Always Boxes Century
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When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Beauty Becomes Comfort Enlightenment
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Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.

About Asked Book Main
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I don't know how the rap game is, because I'm a fan of reality, and the rap game's entertainment.

Because Entertainment Fan Game
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There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

Condition Event Fact Label
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Depends Life Living Love
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

Avoid Avoided Deal Great
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

Assume Being False Feel
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Also Breakdown Death Enslavement
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The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

Behavior Experience Gets Labeled
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Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
Busy Happens Life Making
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Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

About Away Being Ends
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I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

All My Life Always Anything Been
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Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
Like Moon Shine Stars
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If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

Art Being Believe Call
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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Imagination Leaves Lot Reality
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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

About Deserve Entertaining Heroism
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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Dreamer Hope Imagine Join
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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Accept After Cupboard Get
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