"Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds."
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"Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it."
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"But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass."
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"A strong film director does leave you to your devices. A strong director allows you to be free and you trust that he's there and he will tell you if you've gone too far. A strong director allows you to be much more experimental and take greater chances than a director who isn't secure within himself."
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"Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it."
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"What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?"
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"To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea."
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"Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-."
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"A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be."
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"There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story."
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"If you are ending up where you want to be, what difference does it make whether you went fast or slow? Or what difference does it make whether it was painful before it got really good? Isn't that the point of free will? You get to choose."
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"One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for."
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"What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw."
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"The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories."
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"Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something."
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"That which does not kill you isn't finished."
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"Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself."
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"The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches."
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"We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist."
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"Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain."
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