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We are all fools when one wise man appears.
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It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.
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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
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Alvin wondered if it was true-if all men had evil in their hearts, and those men as were good, maybe they were simply the ones who controlled theirselves so well they could act contrary to their heart’s desire. But if that were so, then no man was good, not one.
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No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don’t amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that’s how you get even with these boys.
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Show him who I am, so he will pity me instead of fearing me. And then we can turn pity into compassion, and compassion into understanding, and understanding into affection, and affection into love, and love into life, the life of our children, the life of the new self we will become together.
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It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.
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The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift.A glorious gift.
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The billion billion paths of his life lay open before him, waiting for his first choices, for the first changes in the world around him to eliminate a million futures every second.
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Many a man isn't as good as his woman, but I never knew a husband who was better than his wife.
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If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?
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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
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'A liar sees lies,' said Taleswapper. 'Even when they aren’t there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can’t stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be.'
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I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.
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How could you disguise your own thoughts so even you didn't know what you were thinking?
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You can’t change what you don’t understand.
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People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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Having never been in control of his own life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free.
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In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat.
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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
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Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.
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