I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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Live it up so you can write it down.

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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

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The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

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We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

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I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.

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I drink to make other people more interesting.

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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

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