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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

After Fish Fishing Knowing
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Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

True Art Genuine Virtuosity
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Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.

Great Changes Direction Peace
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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Being Best Culture Habit
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It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Agreeable Always Best Greatest
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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

Many Souls Fail God
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When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

When Die Something Comes
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The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Ears Exact Eyes More
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In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.

Every Friendship Hearts Themselves
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

Against Old Rebel Without
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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

Religion Most Commit Same
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Assistance Greek Libraries Little
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Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

Ears Eyes People Poor
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

When Child Given His
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The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
Around Bigger Christians Even
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Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

Love Animals Plants Everything
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The soul is healed by being with children.

Peace Soul Healed By
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Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

Wealth The Number Things
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Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.

Humanity Can Live Without
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Desert Journey Life Life Is A Journey
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

Ever Given Laughter Line
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

Almost Bed Before Gone
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When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

Left Maine Always Working
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

About Anything Anything Else Else
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!

Hate Shaving Much Easier
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

Best Part About Being
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

Course Fascinated God Grew
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Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

Housekeeping Incredibly Difficult With
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

End Good Good Meal Meal
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I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.

Think Tv More Writer
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
People Sometimes Mistake Being
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Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

Nothing Else Matters Much
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Educate Education Far Finer
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.

With Bikes Absolutely Case
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Give Give Me Life Luxuries
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Architecture Art Civilization Mother
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The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Becomes Building Reality Space
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The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

Architect Beauty Carefully Comfort
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I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

Was Left Small Maine
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With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work.

Competition There Ego Hubris
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I think fame is one of those things where you have a window of opportunity and you have a certain amount of trust from the fans and without that you don't have a career.

Fame Think One Things
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A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.

Wedding Like Funeral But
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When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

Cowardly End Get He
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Best Dealing Insane Method
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But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

Exception Questions Same Spring
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For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Associated Become Beloved Childhood
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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Age Brief Days Encounters
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This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Around Changes Contentment Else
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Always Am Fraud Gentleman
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

Between Binding Cease Come
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