"The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them."
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"A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about."
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"James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can."
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"People always try to be perfect. That's why they don't start anything. Perfection is the lowest standard in the world. Because if you're trying to be perfect, you know you can't be. So what you really have is a standard you can never achieve. You want to be outstanding, not perfect."
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"The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go."
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"Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see."
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"Don’t just try to find great opportunities. Find an opportunity and make it great."
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"People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't."
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"Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all."
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"I love my rejection slips. They show me I try."
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"It’s nice to be able to try and build the life you want for yourself."
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"Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it."
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"I know that this is the internet, and we're all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn't hurt to try to be nice."
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"Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love."
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"I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones."
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"If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself."
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"Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?"
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"Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly."
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"I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!"
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"I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do."
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