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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
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I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.
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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
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If all hearts were open and all desires known - as they would be if people showed their souls - how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!
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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
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If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
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If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
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If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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