"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."
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"Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak."
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"But if you think of all the people who don't like me, just think of all the millions who've never heard of me!"
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"Arlene and I have to get a divorce. She thinks I'm a pervert because I drank our water bed."
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"No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live."
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"Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!"
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"I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now."
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"Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it."
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"My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think."
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"Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked."
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"It is very important not to think about losing."
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"I think having children is the most amazing thing."
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"I think a lot of people don't wear their hearts on their sleeves. I think people should, but a lot of people don't. People may be a bit taken back sometimes about how honest I am and how open I am. But I'm happier this way - it's a good thing for me."
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"There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think."
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"I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now."
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"I think that being good to people - you'll never regret that. Maybe you'll get walked all over, maybe you'll get tricked, maybe you'll get fooled, but I think it's so much better to be kind to people and to trust people rather then to have your guard up and say mean things to people. You never want to be the reason that someone else feels bad."
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"And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept."
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"True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of the nobility God meant us to have. Yet it makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be."
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"If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely."
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"Of course the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why do you think the neighbors put up the fence?"
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