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What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

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Build your world around your dreams rather than trying to fit your dreams into the world you know.

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To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.

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I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day I could try something like that.

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A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.

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Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.

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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

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John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.

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If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.

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A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

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To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.

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The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

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Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

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The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

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When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.

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You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's hard and at times shameful, but then when you read those pages over and you see they have no life to them so you throw them away and force yourself to be more honest. So I suppose the answer is I see myself in all my characters, in their best moments and in their worst.

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A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything.

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When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

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When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

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