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"A game is where you win and lose, and both are part of it. When there is more chance of losing, it is more charming. The game has value when it is tough. So some little problems that come in life are part of the whole game."
"You want to know a little about a lot."
"Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear."
"If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were."
"Ah...so many pedestrians, so little time..."
"They alone live whose lives are in the whole universe, and the more we concentrate our lives on limited things, the faster we go towards death. Those moments alone we live when our lives are in the universe, in others; and living this little life is death, simply death, and that is why the fear of death comes."
"I dream too much, work too little."
"Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little?"
"I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise."
"There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion."
"And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing."
"It’s cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here"
"Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end."
"Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way."
"Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible."
"I know there were periods of times where I didn't feel understood, and there were very few people around me that I felt like they really got me. There was one person who was sort of the one in my life that really got me.In general, I felt a little bit on the outside and not totally included. There was a period of time when we were moving around a lot. So I couldn't really hold on to a certain set of friends. And so that was a little bit difficult."
"I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like."
"Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy"
"For 40 hours a week competition is awfully stiff but after that there's very little competition ."
"An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts."
