It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

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Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

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The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.

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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

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Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

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Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.

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Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.

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The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

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