"That's why whenever I have a really good idea, I'm always worried about theft."
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"A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being."
"I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me."
"You'll never change the world if you're worried about being liked."
"Everybody gon' say something. I'd be worried if they said nothing."
"If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction."
"Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia."
"It's such a shame that people are so much more worried about being right than being decent."
"She found herself to be quite worried that something would jump out at her, so she began to whistle. She thought it might make it harder for things to jump out at her, if she was whistling."
"Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and they won't coalesce ever again."
"Most of the things I worried about in life never happened."
"What about the rest of your life?" She shrugged. "What about it?" "Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows," she says."
"Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway"
"I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried."
"It's hard for me to be happy because I'm always worried about something going awry or what could happen to screw it up. It's hard for me to sit and look around, going, 'Ah, I'm really happy.' I'm not that kind of person."
"If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?"