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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Can forgive Forget Another way
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Today, choose to do good to others, especially those that can not give you anything in return.

Do good Choose Today Return
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Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

Look Most Movies Us
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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 was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

Because Book Dictionary Else
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Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.

About Because Diversion Incredible
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I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.

Another Choice Combination English
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The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else.

Become Distortion Else English
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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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Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.

Children Even Felt How
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Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.
Even Exist Exists I May Not
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I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

Goes Head I Write Lot
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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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I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

Anything Doing Fact Good
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I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
Excellent Good Good Writer Very
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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Age Because Dark Fails
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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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Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Beautiful Gentle Nothing Presence
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Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
Circumstances Him Make Man
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A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

Adjustment Being Conditioned Happiness
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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Ask Four Me Now
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A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Cannot Coerce Command Guidance
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The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

Brought Cannot Endure Errors
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I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

Everything Know Taught Them
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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Complicated Going Joining Know
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I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

About Been Held Know
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Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

Another Appreciative Christ Had
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A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

Action Desires Feed Go
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But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.

Fact Going Most People
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Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

America Class Film Invisible
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When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of our problems.

Any Badly Believe Border
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Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.

Aggression Forced Great Nothing
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When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.

Anything Could Knew Nothing
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Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

Camels Castles Clouds Like
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No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is in the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has

No man Tell Rich Poor
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Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

Big Boy Disadvantage Entering
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The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.
American AmericanPublic Historically Market
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not a choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

God Man Accept life Choice
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Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

Ever Least Nothing Romances
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There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Boredom Death Existential Like
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich

World Take up Give up Us rich
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The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.

Indolent mind Empty Vermin
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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Heart Man rich According to
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It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

Man's duty Have books Luxury Life
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A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Man Know Angry Good
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By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.

1980s Always Any Appreciate
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Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
Chains Move Notice Those
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What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred

Courage Think Quality Man
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Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher

Start Issuing you Challenge Better
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We’re not going to be sitting around waiting for something to happen. We’re going to make things happen for ourselves.

Going Sitting around Happen Make things
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