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You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

Always Amend Believe Big
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For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, 'Oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.'

About Before Church Come
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I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

Another Before Believe Civilization
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But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

Boldly Direction Dreams Figured
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A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

Constantly Could Either Events
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The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Designed Freedom Independence Lasting
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I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.

Being Comedy Fan Going
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Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

Away Because Fun Funny
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When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

About Actually Age Air
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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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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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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Great IRemember Like More
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I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Assumed Be Different Because Different
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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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I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

Am Doing Fast I Am
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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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It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Also Be Strong Course Day
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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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I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.
Funny I Think Kid Me
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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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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

Author Fortunate His Lifetime
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I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

Another Books Five Four
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Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

Easier Find Go I Can
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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Ambition Been Console Fortune
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Both Center Divine Human
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

Absolutely Air Bar Became
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Agree Agreeable Idea Me
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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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Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

Close Effects Framing Much
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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

His Life Man Opportunity
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In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts, are alive.

Alive Becomes Body Concepts
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Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it.

About Art Art History Attention
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When I've had enough of words, I go out into the city for a long walk; sometimes I'll go out walking for several miles. And I'll just take photographs and hope for something striking or unusual to happen that I can organize into a picture frame.

City Enough Frame Go
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Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.

Existed Exists Most Point
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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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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Opportunity Ready Secret Success
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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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For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

About Apt Attempt Else
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

His Life Man Opportunity
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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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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Attempt Become Beware Fearful
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You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.
Become Golfer Hard Must
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

Both Career Commons Course
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

Course Early Golf Golf Course
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People can die of mere imagination.
Die Imagination Mere People
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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Busier Busy He Man
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Time and tide wait for no man.
Man Tide Time Wait
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

Desire Forbid Something Thing
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