The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.

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

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The most important things are the hardest to say

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Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

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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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Do it for joy and you can do it forever

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stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

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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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