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The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose. Richard Grant
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It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think. Robert McCloskey
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I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed. Jhumpa Lahiri
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Okay, I'm exaggerating, but the truth is that the Internet can be a powerful tool, both positive and negative, to a writer's career. R. A. Salvatore
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No man is a failure who enjoys life. William Feather
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Never put off till to-morrow what you can do day after to-morrow just as well. Mark Twain
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It's just I wanted to get myself in a line of work where I didn't have a boss, where I didn't have to show up any place at any particular time. Jack Vance
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It's especially important since September 11 for people to be trained for the unexpected. We want to try to make sure people are safe. Michael Malone
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It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
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It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late. Michael Chabon
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It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well.
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There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing. Manute Bol
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This is the world in which the artist operates and for him words can be dangerous unless they are examined in the light of the work. Mary Martin
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The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone. Amy Vanderbilt
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You simply can't have 90 percent of email and phone and fax traffic coming into a newspaper ombudsman from just one ideological perspective. David Brock
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. Sam Levenson
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I had a book, which was stolen, the art of the life of the character, in which you present a whole life in three of four pages. I used that method. Marguerite Young
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If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours. Clarence Day
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If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder. William Greider
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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation. Rose Kennedy
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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. Bruce Barton
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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else. Joseph Campbell
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If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals. Ron Chernow
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In the United States there is more space where nobody is is than where anybody is. Gertrude Stein
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There used to be a me behind the mask, but I had it surgically removed. Peter Sellers
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The sense that this world is an illusion, that desire is the root of suffering, the awareness of cause and effect-I have a great respect for all that. David Guterson
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The setting of the situation is really cool, and it's very interesting. Jamie is dying to do this; she loved the idea. Can't you just imagine? Kevin Williamson
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I was a big comics reader when I was a kid, from about six to fifteen. I collected them, I read them, I even created my own characters in comics.
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Once, I got an idea for a short story during a Halloween concert while watching someone play the bones during the performance of Dance Macabre. Sarah Zettel
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After the revolution, when one person injures another, society would concern itself most immediately to give help to the person who has been injured. Barbara Deming
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After the revolution, surely the only good reason for institutions that could still be called prisons - because they take people and place them under restraint - is this reason: wanting to keep people from harming others.
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The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language. Henry David Thoreau
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The far more threatening problem is elsewhere - shrinking pensions, collapsed personal savings and soaring costs for health insurance.