1) “An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.”
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2) “It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”
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3) "Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss."
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4) “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
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5) “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
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6) “I'm a cynical idealist.”
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7) “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
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8) “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
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9) “Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.”
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10) “There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
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11) “You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
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12) “Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
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13) “If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”
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14) "I hope you live a life you're proud of."
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15) “We all have souls of different ages.”
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16) “Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
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17) “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
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18) “People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”
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19) “So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.”
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20) “You never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.”
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21) “What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”
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22) “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
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23) “I never blame failure—there are too many complicated situations in life—but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.”
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24) “I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”
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25) “All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.”
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