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• Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
• I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I…
• In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
• The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
• A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
• When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you…
• We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons…
• We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life…
• Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.…
• Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation…
• I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense…
• I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

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