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 Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder-storm is to the air.  The crown of creation. - Herdeb Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. Knowledge is power. Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do. Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously. The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit. Humility is no substitute for a good personality. I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. Hope is patience with the lamp lit. Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or 'broken heart' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one. As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. All hell broke loose. Stay out of jail. 
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