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It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.
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Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.
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I just don't think America wants a female host. It's like men don't walk around in skirts in this country. Why change a good thing?
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We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is like the ocean--the pearl is in its depths, the seaweed swims.
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It's kind of like when you get married, you kinda go into it wanting to remember everything. And once it's done, you can't remember a single thing.
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A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.
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You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded.
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I can't see myself not rappin' and not talking the bullshit I'm talking. I love that! I can't lie. Once I stop I'm just going to stop all the way.
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I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.
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The purpose of life is to create your Self anew, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about Who You Are. It is to announce and become, express and fulfill, experience and know your true Self.
