Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

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The most important things are the hardest to say

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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

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you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

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Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

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The scariest moment is always just before you start.

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I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

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The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

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What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

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