"Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed."
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"I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way."
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"We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered."
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"... when a big man has a big idea I never like to stand in his way."
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"Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it."
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"Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience, it's the way we summarize ourselves."
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"Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke."
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"One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures."
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"I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking."
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"Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans."
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"The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge."
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"I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness."
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"Fear: the best way out is through."
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"We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better... we never get satisfied."
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"Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn."
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"It is freeing to become aware that we do not have to be victims of our past and can learn new ways of responding. Forgiveness is love practiced among people who love poorly. It sets us free without wanting anything in return."
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"In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered."
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"Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you"
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"What do you like to do?” She scuffed a toe amongst the rushes. “Needlework.” “Very restful, isn’t it?” “Well,” said Arya, “not the way I do it."
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"I can now see to the bottom of my own depths, there is nothing stopping my gaze, no obstacle is in the way. And there is nothing there."
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