"Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to live without resort to perseverance."
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"Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying."
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"If you're going to make a big wave, you have to be totally unified with everything that's happening... Maybe in the moment of having to know everything all at once you burst through the barriers of trying to put things in order."
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"A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior."
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"I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy."
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"I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself"
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"So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?"
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"To live an art-filled life, one must be willing to try new things & accept that things change."
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"If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it."
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"Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!"
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"Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer."
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"I try to keep the happy memories. If that's what you call selective memories, I'm good with that."
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"If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate."
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"If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy."
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"Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence."
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"The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning."
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"Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad."
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"The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end."
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"I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story."
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"Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?"
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