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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

About He I Wish Know
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Burning Burning Desire Desire Knowledge
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specifi

Become Convinced Exist Greatest
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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Always Brains Dangerous Money
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Balance Bicycle Brain Effort
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

Any Burning Burning Desire Cut
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Attained Beyond Failure Great
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Achieve Beliefs Feelings Harmony
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I've never abandoned the novel.
Abandoned Never Novel
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

Art Biography Done Great
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

Anyone Colonial Complex Knows
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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Alone Little Much Together
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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Consume Happiness Producing Right
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The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Most Pathetic Person Sight
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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Another Anyone Difficult Energy
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

Almost Any As Far As Attention
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Any Anything Even Fit
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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

Always Blue Ends Hell
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

Anyone Artist Concern Else
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You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

Bastards Cries Eyes Heart
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

Author Best Book Call
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

Act Been Closet Coat
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I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

Always Anyone Deeply Feel
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Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

Best Creation Deepest Emotion
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In spite of the disappointment by close ones, your future and purpose will come to pass. The coming decade will be a season of shining and manifestation of your glory.

Glory Shining Decade Spite
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Everything that you’ve gone through will work for you if you keep hope alive. What you’ve gone through will give you the credibility and moral right to help others walking the same path.

Path Alive Moral Give
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

About Am Any Backed
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

Nas
About Competitive Gets Hand
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.

Nas
Anything Biggest Could Promised
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Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

Nas
Any Be Prepared Beast Crazy
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We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.

Nas
African Black Everyone White
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.

About Anything Hint Impressive
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
Conscience Inner Inner Voice Looking
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.

Nas
Admire Ahead Entire Favorites
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Above Complex Else Emotion
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It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
Else Fool No One Prerogative
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Another Delusion Differs Love
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

Another Better Better Time Die
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Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Beauty Because Concentrating Effort
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Also Better Cabbage Idealist
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I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.
Always Anyone Anything Publish
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The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Amendment Countries Current First
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Children Devil Failure God
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Be Happy Fear Happy Haunting
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Chief Fact Lies Lives
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No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

Agents Employed Ever Far
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

Been Chest Ever Get
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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Build Dance Draw Else
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Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

Any Best Honestly Matter
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

Able Almost Any Conclusion
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