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I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Bad Cardboard Chewing Felt
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When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.

Best Chose Ears Everything
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I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

Alive Definite Largely Magic
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A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.

Strong Cat Forces Itself
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
Almost Born Buried Genius
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Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Contemplate Existence Moral
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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Christmas Heart Honor Keep
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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Aims Heart Always Devoted
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Anyone Burden Else Useless
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The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Between Constructed Construction Created
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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Another Brave Communication Electric
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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Action World Moping Droning
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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Activities Business Concerned Far
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Concentrate Determination Diligence Done
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Blessings Reflect Past Every
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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Business First Men Other
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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Business English Great Principle
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Beauties Changes Easy Every
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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Answer Baby Born Complete
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The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Brother Call Endurance Learn
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Emergency Life Safe Simple
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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Brings Children Existence Injustice
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Answered Home Magician Name
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Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

China Cows Entirely Farm
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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Coat Dignity Holiness Imagine
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Great Melancholy Men Poor
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When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Bleeds Dangerous Good Inwardly
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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Ability Any Awesome Beings
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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Character Crucible Difficulty Forms
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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Any Changes Consistent Got
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You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

Attach Become Environment Events
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We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Age Entertainment Information Information Age
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The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Call Luck Meeting Offspring
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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Behaviors Bodies Change Changing
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I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.

Anime Before Comics Even
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For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

About Artist Automatically Because
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My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

African America Based Because
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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Anywhere Black Context History
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I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

About Before Drawing Fit
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Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.

About Artist Being Black
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It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face.

Basically Breaking Breaking Up Come
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Cause Considered Difference Friend
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Better Dreams Future History
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Authority Bold Every Fearing
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Bad Bad Government General Government
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Among Certain Created Creator
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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Ever Free Government No-One
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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Armed Best Free Mean
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Believes Error He Ignorance
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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Decide Government Hesitate Latter
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