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

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I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.

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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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Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

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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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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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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

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Do it for joy and you can do it forever

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