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Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.
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On what is valuable thieves and the law agree.
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What I'm not changes more than what I am.
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Patience is decisive indecision.
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Greater than the temptations of beauty are those of method.
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Value yourself according to the burdens you carry, and you will find everything a burden.
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Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.
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Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.
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The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time.
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I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.
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The procrastinator dreads beginning, the workaholic, ending.
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Impatience is not wanting to understand that you don't understand.
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The god of many cannot remain the true god.
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Solitude takes time. One becomes alone, like a towel drying.
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Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.
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Those who are too slow to be intelligent deserve our patience, those who are too quick, our pity.
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Happiness is the readiness to be happy.
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Beware of knowing your virtues; you may lose them. Beware of knowing your vices; you may forgive them.
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Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for.
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It's amazing that I sit at my job all day and no one sees me clearly enough to say What is that boy doing behind a desk?
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The road reaches every place, the short cut only one.
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There are silences harder to take back than words.
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The drives were nature's first provision: thinking was added later, to get us around the world's obstacles to them.
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Anger has been ready to be angry.
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As for my writing. I like it enough to keep going. I dislike it enough to keep going
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Your choices: spend, and believe in things; save, and believe in money.
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It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.
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The best way to get people to do what you want is not to be too particular about what you want.
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How often feelings are circular. How embarrassing to be embarrassed. How annoying to be annoyed.
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Seizing on a piece of business, I become tiny, eager, efficient: roiled water I cannot see into.
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So many times I've made myself stupid with the fear of being outsmarted.
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Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.
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The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn't.
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I am not unambitious. I am just too ambitious for what you call ambitions.
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What is more yours than what always holds you back?
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Happiness, like water, is always available, but so often it seems we'd prefer a different drink.
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I'm sitting here bored, ... trying to remember that everything is a complete mystery.
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Easier to keep changing your life than to live it.
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The first abuse of power is not realizing that you have it.
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Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.
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Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?
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God help my neighbors if I loved them as I love myself.
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I'll buy that means also I believe it.
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There is no road to the land without roads.
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If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.
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All work is the avoidance of harder work.
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Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks.
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Water deepens where it has to wait.
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I worked so hard to understand it that it must be true.
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If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.
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To condemn your sin in another is hypocrisy. Not to condemn is to reserve your right to sin.
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How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees.
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Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren't hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love.
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Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.
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To practice Sincerity is to burden everyone else with believing you.
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A belief is a question we have put aside so we can get on with what we believe we have to do.
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Judging itself brings the pain of being judged. The wicked judge mistakes this for another crime of the accused and lengthens his sentence.
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Sophistication is upscale conformity.
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I'm a kid checking mail, a kid on his cell with his questions: are we in love, Life, are we exclusive, are we forever? — James Richardson
The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.
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Think of all the smart people made stupid by flaws of character. The finest watch isn't fine long when used as a hammer.
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I don't know what's meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window.
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When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.
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If I do not waste time, I am wasting my time.
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I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does.
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Nothing important comes with instructions.
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Too much apology doubles the offense.
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A day is only a day. But a life is only a life.
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To know, you just have to know. To believe, you have to make others believe.
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That others know: science. That others choose: politics.
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Let me have my dreams but not what I dream of.
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