"What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice."
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"When you try to help people become a better person, you're going to have to find out what's really going in their world."
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"The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which indeed often seem to be trying to annul it altogether."
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"I try to stay fit and eat healthily, but I am not anxious to starve myself and become unnaturally thin. I don't find that look attractive on women and I don't want to become part of that trend. It's unhealthy and it puts too much pressure on women in general who are being fed this image of the ideal, which it is not."
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"I try to avoid giving advice."
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"ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them."
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"I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people."
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"What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy."
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"Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover things."
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"There's always that part of you, when you're sitting around going, 'That would be cool to try, to see what it would be like.' But I had never had that drive in me to say, 'Oh, I want to be a movie star one day.'"
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"I'm not approachable by someone who says, "Let's try some drugs," or something like that. I'm absolutely close-minded about that kind of thing. But I'm wide open to anyone who says, "I've been wondering why we're here and where we're going, and I've got a few answers, but I wondered if anything ever happened to you that suggests..." Then they have me, and I become a chatterbox and can just talk away literally for days."
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"I'm not trying to kill you, I only want to make you stronger"
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"Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger."
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"My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out."
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"I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isnt happening."
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"We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other."
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"I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist."
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"Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less."
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"There is but one failure in life and that is the failure to try."
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"The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it."
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