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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.

Alive Am Believe Claim
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Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

Easier Even Expected Inaccessible
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I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.
Backup Because Lead Lead Singer
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For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.

Accept Always Avoided Being
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I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

Absolutely Absolutely Not Am Difficult
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I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.
Afraid Fail Know Possible
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Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
Be Expects Fool Happy
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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Characteristics Combine Dope Fiend
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Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.

Because Believe Big BigEvent
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

An anarchist Politics Impressionist
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To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

Christ like World Worth caring Thing
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To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

America Conservative Conserve Constitution
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Three things Human life Important
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Military men Dumb Stupid animals
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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Matter True Counts Perceived
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.

Issues Important Voters
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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.

Have Tendency Believe Problem
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Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
Politicians Dogs Expectancy Bearable
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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Love Endure indifference Lamp
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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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Do you want to be bigger than you were last year? If yes: build your capacity. Achievers are learners, you need more knowledge to make it big in this life.

Bigger than Last year Capacity Learners
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I'm so used to being misunderstood.
Being Being Misunderstood Misunderstood Used
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I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.

All Day Around Because Bed
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I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.

Charlotte Little Loved People
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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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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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It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
Afraid Courage Know Ought
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Whenever I start a book, I swear it's going to be a short one. But then it's, 'Who was his grandfather? And how did he get there in the first place? And what kind of animals is he chasing?'

Animals Book Chasing Did
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To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

Attainment Begin Enter Failure
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If your real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Before Desire Good Just
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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 named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

Better Brown Going He
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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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You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble

Because Behind Happen How
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If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

Men Wings Black feathers Clever
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It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
Certain Funny Genius Must
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I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.
About Good Movies People
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It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

Character Comedy Enough Good
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Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

Being Come Creative Faces
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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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When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise.

Blind Going Holes Just
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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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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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You must have goals in your life, or otherwise be prepared to be used by those who do have them.

Must have Goals Life Used
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You can’t be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

You can't Common Man Goes nowhere
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You were born to be a player. you were meant to be here. this moment is yours.

You were Born Player Moment
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Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

About Academics Among Dead
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Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance.

Black BlackHole Civil CivilWar
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Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

Because Believe Bigger Decrease
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Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

Economic freedom Sacrificed Political
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