"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]"
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"Every villian is a hero in his own mind."
"Doubt is a storm. We either ride it out, or we change our course. Neither is right or wrong--to stay or go. Twenty years ago, should you have really married X, or Y? This college, or that? A life-changing decision one makes becomes the right decision by the fact of simply having been made."
"Anything disguised as anything is chameleon. A ghost disguised as an unobservable and invisible object is a great example. Still, that’s easier to see than the love my ex wife had for me."
"I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself."
"The best investment for poverty elimination is education."
"It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us,"said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you."
"My friend "M"says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off."
"Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune,"but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
"We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us."
"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."
"I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling."
"I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor."
"The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?"
"Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!"
"If you think life is magical or life is hard, either way you are right. Your thoughts are the source of reality."
"If everybody else your age is doing something very different than what you're doing, there's always going to be someone saying to you you might not succeed with it, you might not make any money with that... there's always going to be some type of obstacle in the way. All of those things will go away if you really focus on what makes you happy."
"William Hurt has a painful last name. Kevin Love has a name perfect for February 14th. But what about Johnny Longdong? Where does he fit?"
"God wants all man's attention, thoughts and focus to be on Him."
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