What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

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The way up and the way down are one and the same. - Heraclitus

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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. -- Walt Whitman

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Endure the pain, possess the power. ― Lailah Gifty Akita

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Sam Rockwell is an occupational hero for me, the same way that Phil Hoffman or Peter Sarsgaard or Michael Shannon are. - Paul Walter Hauser

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I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories. - Jesmyn Ward

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My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that. - Will Ferrell

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Philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world. ― Umberto Eco

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Micro-mettle of women is stronger than herculean power of men. ― Mantaranjot Mangat

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I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.- Donald Trump

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