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 You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.  A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear. After listening to thousands of pleas for pardon to offenders, I can hardly recall a case where I did not feel that I might have fallen as my fellow man had done, if I had been subjected to the same demoralizing influences and pressed by the same temptations. If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother. To be simple is to be great. Turn your doubts to question; turn your question to prayers; turn your prayers to God. A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right. Genius is only great patience. Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer. Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough. The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved. The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent. Genius is eternal patience. Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. I can't tell you his age, but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome. I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy. 
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