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 Energy and persistence conquer all things.  I always ask the question, "Is this what I want in my life?" Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. A book is the only immortality. God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man. A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. Nothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves. There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts. When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you. In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20%. There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That is all. The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain. In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again. 
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