Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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As we live, so we learn. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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The tongue of experience has most truth. ~Arabic Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A fool and his money are easily parted. ~Irish Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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