Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
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Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.Leo Rosten
You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them -- no matter how old or impressive they may be -- as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much -- we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.
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Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
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If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.
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