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I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

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No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.

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No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

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No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.

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A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

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A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice.

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Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant)

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