There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.

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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

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