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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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases. ~Ron Wyden
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. ~English Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~Lionel Hampton
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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