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Without leaps of the imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning

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Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.

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The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

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Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

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For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it I don't feel that I should be doing something else ins...more

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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existi...more

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Rich People plan for three generationsPoor people plan for Saturday night

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My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither d...more

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I took a part-time editing job to pay the rent. It was work I could do at home, but when suddenly I was expected to spend two days a week in the offic...more

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It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit.

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After all, hope is a form of planning.

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When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.

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Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.

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But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't matter, that she was lucky to have my sister and ...more