"New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles."
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"We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner"
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"I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write."
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"What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must."
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"There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of lifelife's "experiences"are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side."
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"I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself."
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"To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: It is the only way we can leave the future open."
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"Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful."
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"Chimps act the way they feel unless they are afraid of reprisal if they do so. But that doesn't apply to humans."
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"The only possible way to get somebody to change is to reach into their hearts."
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"Music is so hard to talk about in many ways, It communicates beyond what our language can put across, and having to sit there and analyze it and talk about it is a struggle for me."
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"Things come up from the outside, the outside world says, okay, you have do this, you have to go here and here and here, and these are your options. You can be here or you can be here. You can do this, or you can do this. You can go here, or you can go there. So each one of those things becomes a place of decision, and the way we make decisions is that we all get together and if somebody doesn't feel right about it or it doesn't seem to sit right, usually we'll go with the no vote. If somebody's not comfortable with it, we'll figure it's not going to be worth doing."
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"The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like the form in which it comes to you - it may be misery, struggle, starvation - but when you invite life, things begin to happen."
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"You can't let facts get in the way of the truth."
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"Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love"
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"And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way."
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"You become successful, the way I see it, only if you're good enough to deliver what the public enjoys. If you're not, you won't have any audience; so the performer really has more to do with his success than the public does."
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"There’s no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards."
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"When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again."
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"I feel responsible to my people to portray them the way we should be."
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