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 Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.  I take all knowledge to be my province. Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains. If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well. After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled, "She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!" O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! A friend in power is a friend lost. An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real. And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor, And my soul from out that shadow, That lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted - nevermore. More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than by defeat. The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision, raising unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death. We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. We all leak oil. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others. Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before. That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of a life. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her. 
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