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 All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.  Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford-but you'll take him anyway. Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all. Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. Writing is easy: all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead. Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself. It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw. The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it. There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for further desires. Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle. Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. - Matthew I was playing it like Willie Wilson, but I forgot that I'm in Clint Hurdle's body. Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing. - Voltaire Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it. "Brave admiral, say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone?" The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! and on!" No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute. 
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