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“Constantly through thought you are creating your inner conditions and helping to create the conditions around you. So keep your thoughts on the positive side, think about the best that could happen, think about the good things you want to happen.”
Source : Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.23, Friends of Peace PIlgrim
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“No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.”
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“I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.”
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“Victories come when their time comes. Often later than you wish. Patience is an essential quality of a coach's profession.”
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“You can't put toilet paper in the toilet [in the space ship], so there's a separate vacuum can in front of you on the wall and when you're done, you put the toilet paper in there and seal that up.”
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“We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves, or fight desperately for food, to be laid on our tombs after our death.”
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“Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?”
Source : In a 1960 letter to Natalie Barney, as quoted in "Paris Was a Woman" by Andrea Weiss, (p. 173), 1995.