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Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
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Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.
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He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.
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He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
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He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
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He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
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He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
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He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
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He had no special hobbies, but he needed luxury in general of a kind, and especially the luxury of getting things in a hurry, his theory being that everything comes to the man who won't wait.
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
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He has lived for peace, but he died for his principles.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
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He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing, but a supply of toothpicks.
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He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.
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