"There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be."

Mailer, Norman on sex
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"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination."

Mailer, Norman on modern and modernism   

"The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube."

Mailer, Norman on vision   

"To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming."

Proverb, English on talkativeness
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"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it."

Ford, Henry on work   

"Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."

Mailer, Norman on newspapers
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"If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist."

Mailer, Norman on journalism and journalists   

"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"Wisdom is found only in truth."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on wisdom
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"There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on life
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"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on mind
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"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on present
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"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."

Holtz, Lou on attitude
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"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

Beauvoir, Simone De on change
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"Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire."

Prazlin, Duchess on happiness   

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."

Hill, Napoleon on sacrifice
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"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"Never mistake activity for achievement."

Wooden, John on achievement
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"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on success
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"If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!"

Churchill, Winston on wives
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on fanatics and fanaticism
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"It’s okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers --- they help us to learn."

Bradshaw, John on   

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."

Epictetus on happiness
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"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

Barrie, Sir James M. on happiness
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"There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved."

Sand, George on love
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"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."

Paine, Thomas on integrity
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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

Wilde, Oscar on faces
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"We write our own destiny; we become what we do."

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame on destiny
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"Lìfe doesnt listen to your logic. It goes on its own way undisturbed. You have to listen life. It doesnt bother about your logic.. "

Osho on
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"love is not sex, love is not giving gifts, love is not a thousand things. love is only living in your beloved's mind day and night."

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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer."

Bee, Bernard Elliot on victory   

"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."

Buddha on anger
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"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."

Reading, Lady Stella on achievement
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"Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on victory   

"Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting."

Beecher, Henry Ward on victory
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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