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“In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.”
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“I have no memory. I always say to my friends, 'Don't tell me anything you don't want repeated. I just can't remember not to.'”
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“Enigmatic — the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.”
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“Being popular is important. Otherwise people might not like you.”
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“I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.”
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“In our society to admit inferiority is to be a fool, and to admit superiority is to be an outcast. Those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.”
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“It would save a lot of trouble, he thought, if every man and woman could realize at the outset which leaf of the triune clover claimed his allegiance, accept the limitation with humility, and not try to behave as though he — or she — had it in him to be the whole damn plant.”
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“... to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. ... the past is not static. It can be relived only in memory, and memory is a device for forgetting as well as remembering. It, too, is not immutable. It rediscovers, reinvents, reorganizes. Like a passage of prose it can be revised and repunctuated. To that extent, every autobiography is a work of fiction and every work of fiction an autobiography.”