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“The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.”
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“The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.”
Source : The George Washington University Interview, nsarchive2.gwu.edu. January 18, 1997. 
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“Your greatest failure will precede your greatest success.”
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“You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.”
Source : Eden Phillpotts (1928). “The Ring Fence”
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“Things happen, and you can't make them unhappen. You don't get do-overs, you can't roll back the clock, and the only thing you can change, and the only thing it does any good to worry about, is how you let them affect you.”
Source : Jennifer Weiner (2002). “Good in Bed”, p.373, Simon and Schuster
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“The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life”
Source : Twitter post from Apr 22, 2015
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“All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.”
Source : Hugh Miller (1857). “The Testimony of the Rocks”, p.220
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“To know that there's a good chance that this is something that could potentially be around well after I leave this planet... it's a good feeling.”
