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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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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Poverty and anger do not agree. ~Arabic 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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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that is just how it is going to be. ~Jen Lancaster
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Too many cooks spoil the broth. ~English Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
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