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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I…
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you…
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons…
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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…
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.…
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation…
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense…
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in…
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It's hard to keep on being civil when they ask you such annoying questions.
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Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
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When you die, if you go somewhere where they ask you a bunch of questions about your life and what you learned…
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My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.
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When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing /…
— Leonard Cohen
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The person who helps you is the person who aids you in becoming independent and strong. Good teachers don't answer your questions,…
— Frederick Lenz
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The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media.…
— Joe Meno
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...and when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you ask them "Will you take…
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