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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Eyes God Goodness Judgment Success
For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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Brain God Lunch Mouth Respect
What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Forget Future Important Serious Time Willing
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Answer Artist Question Role
This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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Flower Glorious Human Life Meadow Ourselves
It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Easy Money Poor Wealth
Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Action Discussion Hero Himself Mindset State
Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Death Life Myself See Thinking Tree Wind
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Believe Impossible Life People Trust Yourself
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Artist Confusion Correct Obligation Problem Solve Yourself
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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God Government Himself Return Right
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Future Hope Past Saint Sin
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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Behavior Happiness Oneself
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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Author Beginning End Experience Lying Ourselves Story Writing
Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Break Fingers Poet Writing Yourself
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Accomplishment Ethics Logic

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