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Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.

Men Self-made Wife Children
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Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

Attitude Happier Money Success
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When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window.

Success Love Window
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A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

Daydreamer Prepared
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Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted? If it were not for language, could we lie?

Language Insrument Trusted Lie
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I never change, I simply become more myself.

Change Simply Myself
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Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read

Read Apology Someone
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We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

Linked Blood Memory Language
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The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

Ideal art Noblest Life Doubt
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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.

Reading Involuntarily Voice Soul
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Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

Strange Light Darkness Complete
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Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

Society Picnic Individuals Enjoy
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Hating "The Great Gatsby" (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will be.

Hating Spitting You
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I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end

Time Fixed Forgotten Misery
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All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

Life Love Family Friends
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I think the message of peace is for everyone.

Think Message Peace Everyone
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...laughter emerges in the realization that all along the original was derived.

Laughter Realization Original Derived
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Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.

Life Protected Precarious Value
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I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

Think Sexual Position Comic
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I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

Gender Feminism Women Equality
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To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

Operate Power Domination
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Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

Honesty Privilege Insulting Redress
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Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.

Life Passions Years Reading
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everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.

Everyone Old Secret Entitled
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Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.

Mistake Comment Social grace
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We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Time Dreams Imagination Reality
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Anything Man Imagine Real
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

Thunder Men Fear Lightning
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
Chance Lost Present Last moment
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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

War Destroy Peace Man
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

Wisest Worst Beginning Surprise
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite

Existence Love Emotion Living
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With time and thought, one can do a good job

Time Thought Good job
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

Use Arguments Destroyed Force
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Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

Art Progress Cherished
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The myth that we must have “time”—more time—in order to create is a myth that keeps us from using the time we do have.

Myth Time Create
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The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product.

Trick Write Time Love
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Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.
Anger Meant Acted upon
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You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you.

Work Spiritual Fact God
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Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.

Art Thinking Opposite
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Always remember that your Censor’s negative opinions are not the truth.

Censor's Negative Opinion Truth
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Fame will come to some. Honor will visit all who work.

Fame Honor Visit Work
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God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

God Handle Overestimate Underestmate
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The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

Voice Original Strangled People's
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Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

Procastination Laziness Fear Forgive
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We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

Thinking God's Will Dream
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Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

Creativity Moment Timeless
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Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

Artist Visionaries Faith Creative goal
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Creativity requires activity…And most of us hate to do something when we can obsess about something else instead.

Creativity Activity Hate Obsess
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Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.

Writing Act Listening Ego
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