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If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.

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If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.

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Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

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People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.

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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

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If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

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Sometimes all you need in love is to make each other happy, to make each other laugh. So long as you can still do that ten years down the line then I think you're gold. Never let the laughter slip from your relationship.

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You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.

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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

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I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.

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Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

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That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

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In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

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Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

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Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.

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