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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
Concentration Happiest Life My Life
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Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

Always Boring Dark Most
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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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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Lie Life Moderation Pleasures
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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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One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Being Better Difficulties Explicit
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Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

Area Boston Harvard Never
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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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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Always Both Career Genres
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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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To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Advantage Class Community Plunder
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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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One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces.

Characteristics Chief Mob Quickness
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Ages Experience Quotations Wisdom
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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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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Acts Great He Man
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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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If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

About Gloomy Go Grief
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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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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Above Amusing Long Never
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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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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Conscious Facts Great Ignorant
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

Change Constant Country Inevitable
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Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Beauty Elegance Magnificence Splendor
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If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Clever Should Very You
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The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

About Affairs Am Concern
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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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Justice is truth in action.
Action Justice Truth
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Between Different Each Feelings
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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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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

Course Create Failure Our
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There's never a new fashion but it's old.
Fashion Never New Old
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People can die of mere imagination.
Die Imagination Mere People
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The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.

Crafts Learn Life Long
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Age Agree Chastity Filth
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I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.

Any Before Believe Die
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I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.

Absolutely Believe Come Community
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The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.

Accomplishments Behind Company Contents
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The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.
Almost Depends Education Entirely
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You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

Build Building Foundation Going
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Defect Redeeming Single William
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Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

Any Believe Expression Faith
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Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

Criticism Destroy Entire Everyone
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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Medicine Consist Amusing Nature
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I don't think that the Internet has contributed greatly to immorality.

Greatly Immorality Internet Think
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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Speaks Understands Whom Metaphysics
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