"That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough."
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"There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark."
"He who knows enough is enough will always have enough."
"I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that."
"What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough."
"... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both."
"I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though."
"Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt."
"As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists."
"Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader."
"On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough."
"Never be comfortable.... .with just good enough."
"Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment."
"It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over."
"Literature exists because the world isn't enough."
"Willing is not enough, we must do."
"In art, the best is good enough."
"Doing is never enough if you neglect Being."
"I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas."
"Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves."