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When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.
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When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.
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When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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When lorry drivers come up behind me and I'm cycling, innocently keeping to my side of the road, and they decide because they are so big, and their lorry is so powerful, and they just want to clear me out of the road, and they hoot aggressively, then I do see red a bit. I do.
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When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
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When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.
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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes!
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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
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When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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When people come and see my show, I try to infuse into them that they can walk away feeling like their lives are a victory.
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When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.
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When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
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