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My life is a reading list.


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If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.



It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.

It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.



but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.



A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy



O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.



If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.



Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement, '" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives.

Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement, '" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives.



WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, IF YOU WANT TO DO THINGS YOUR OWN WAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION - YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND A LITTLE COURAGE.

WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, IF YOU WANT TO DO THINGS YOUR OWN WAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION - YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND A LITTLE COURAGE.



We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.

We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.





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One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.

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I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.



I have this little thing that people call Keegan-ese, where I don't speak English words at all. I just say stuff like, "You gotta toish the doish and you gotta maloish the hoish."

I have this little thing that people call Keegan-ese, where I don't speak English words at all. I just say stuff like, "You gotta toish the doish and you gotta maloish the hoish."



Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.



Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck.

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I neither look up to the rich or down to the poor.

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I can't relate to 99% of humanity.

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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

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