I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.
~ James Baldwin
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I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.
~ James Baldwin
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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
~ Mark Twain
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Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.
~ Sun Tzu
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Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and those who followed them accurately foresaw this growing split between truth and reality in Western culture, and they endeavored to call Western man back from the delusion that reality can be comprehended in an abstracted, detached way.
~ Rollo May
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We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self.
~ William Gibson
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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.
― Henry S. Haskins
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Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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