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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Reason Mistakes Conscience
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Originality Writer Achieve Judgment
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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Evidence Intelligence Surprised Nothing
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The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

Man Tempted Dishonest
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Silence Arguments Refute
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Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.

Opinions Formed Caution Changed
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I think that just your tastes change as you get older and I think they'll continue to change.

Think Tastes Change Older
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I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.

Moment Think Fun Memory
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I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

Find Emotionally Character's Convincing
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Time is what turns kittens into cats.

Time Turns Kittens Cat
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Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

Pay Attention Life Suck
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The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magicks, it's the hardest thing to do.

Lesson Truth Illusion World
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Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

Writing Human being Best
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Whatever makes you weird, is probably your greatest asset.

Weird Asset
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In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?

Time Monsters Worth Man
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Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers.

Faith God Humanity Proof
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All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

Worthy work Author Art Kid
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I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

Write Strength Characters Afraid
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Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

Writers Touch Reality
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Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.

Gratitude Teach Children
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Listening Imitation Sincerest Flattery
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When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

Life Happinesses Family
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Success is state of mind.If you want success start thinking of yourself as a success
Success Mind Thinking Yourself
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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life

Granted Compliment Comfortable Life
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The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.

Love Idealist Rebel Lives
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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Person Success Failure Process
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Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply.

Music Memory Learn Believe
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As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care

Celebrity Position People Care
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Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.
Studies Quality Successful Persistence
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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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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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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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Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Love Hate Powerful
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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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How crucial for us to rehearse the future, in words. Never to doubt that you will live to utter them. Never to doubt that you will tell your story.

Future Words Live Story
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Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

Writing Consequence Hunted Material
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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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Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

Writing Activity Bribe Suicide
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For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

Advantage Writer Invisible Power
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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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There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

Original Primary Gender Imitation
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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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Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Masculine Feminine Roles Socially
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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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There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

Gender Identity Expressions Results
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Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

Love Feeling History Vision
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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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