Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.
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When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.
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Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.
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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
