"That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out."
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"The world is broken, and all our attempts to fix it will inevitably fail, and some day all life will be extinguished from the planet and there will be no one to remember that any of us ever did anything. But this fact, strangely, does not delegitimize hope, because every now and again we find evidence that hope is helpful. This evidence, in my opinion, should be celebrated-even as we lament and fight the devastation."
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"That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back."
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"What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that."
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"I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely."
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"When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property."
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"It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change."
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"The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it."
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"Just set one day's work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. And that's the only way it does."
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"It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good."
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"A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly."
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"For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it."
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"[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what everybody does," is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency."
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"That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive."
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"There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable."
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"I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments."
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"Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king."
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"And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly."
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"What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory."
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"How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?"
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