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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
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I am my own muse, the subject I know best.
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Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.
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I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch, but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.
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If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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I think the best thing somebody ever did to me was my mother opening her legs and squirting me out.
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So I’ve got limits on how fast I can go—both my own (I can only go so fast for so long before I fall over and pant to death) and those of the others on the hike. However, there is no limit on my ability to slow down. Or on anyone else’s ability to slow down. Or stop. And if any of us did, the line would extend indefinitely. What’s happening isn’t an averaging out of the fluctuations in our various speeds, but an accumulation of the fluctuations. And mostly it’s an accumulation of slowness—because dependency limits the opportunities for higher fluctuations. And that’s why the line is spreading. We can make the line shrink only by having everyone in the back of the line move much faster than Ron’s average over some distance.
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He's the reason why I write music. If he's reading this - James Taylor, I'd love to work with you! My mom would put headphones on her belly before I was born, so I've been listening to him literally all of my life. When my dad played me 'Walking Man,' I heard those chord changes and that melody, it completely blew me away.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.
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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
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The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.
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If you're afraid - don't do it, - if you're doing it - don't be afraid!
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Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
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Wherever ideas come together they tend to weld into general ideas; and whenever they are generally connected, general ideas govern the connection; and these general ideas are living feelings spread out.
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You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.
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I think of you, I dream of you, I conjure you up when I need you most. This is all I can do, but to me it isn't enough. It will never be enough, this I know; yet what else is there for me to do? If you were here, you would tell me, but I have been cheated of even that. You always knew the proper words to ease the pain I felt. You always knew how to make me feel good inside.
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Interior decor is my guilty pleasure. If I'm going to splurge on something, it's more for my home than for clothes.
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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism-by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
