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“I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragrapheach sentence, evenas I go along.”

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Author:William Styron

“Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.”

Long Would Be Perfect Periods Perfection Lifetime Determined Unnatural Long Periods Of Time

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.”

“One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time.”

Men Children Long Facts Problem Realizing Perfect Periods Active Manifest Psychics Inner Life Long Periods Of Time

Author:Maria Montessori

“Forgiveness is key to enchanted love because it is key to living right, period. It is the capacity to see beyond the veil of personality and worldly illusions. No one is perfect or attractive every day. Forgiveness means we are capable of relating to someone on a deeper level than the ordinary self. And that we are committed to doing so no matter what the appearances are, no matter what the situation is.”

“In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.”

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Author:George P. Baker

“The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States has known until today. I think there is a lesson here. Do not regulate the private morals of people. Do not tell them what they can take or not take. Because if you do, they will become angry and antisocial and they will get what they want from criminals who are able to work in perfect freedom because they have paid off the police.”

Source: Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976

“Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.”

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Author:Ilya Ehrenburg

“You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“Any addict in recovery would say that life never becomes perfect. Your life is better, but that doesn't mean it's easier. Life, at least for a certain period of time, becomes harder and you have to work through that to get to the light at the end of the tunnel.”

Mean Ends Light Life Is Certain Perfect Periods Easier Harder Recovery Addict Tunnels Light At The End Of The Tunnel End Of The Tunnel Addicts In Recovery Easier Life

Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find their perfect home.”

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Author:Rigoberto Gonzalez

“I think it would help if, when people are first ordained, they underwent a period of strict training, maybe for several years. During this time they would learn basic Buddhist philosophy in a monastic community where all the teaching and training was directed toward living a perfect monastic life and wasn't channeled out to fit into the lay life - which is what usually happens in Dharma centers where the teachings are directed toward how to live the Dharma in your everyday life.”

“I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.”

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Author:Kesha

“People are interested in certain ideas, in certain periods, and then that moves, and okay, now people are more interested in studying this, and there is no perfect balance, and how would you know what the perfect balance is? I mean, what does it mean to have too many Beethoven chairs and too few Stravinsky chairs? I mean, that's kind of a value judgment that isn't really based on humility. We don't know what the optimum number is, so let people figure this out on their own. People are more interested in Beethoven than Stravinsky? Great! Why would that bother me?”

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Author:Charles Koch