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“I came to New York to see what I could see — that's from a children's book, isn't it? — and to find the living part.”
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“The increase in accidents is disappointing. But the decrease in total fatalities is a hopeful sign.”
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“I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.”
Source : "Maynard turns eye to sisterhood". Interview with John Wilkens, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. August 25, 2013. 
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“I'm a bit of a Libertarian.”
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“As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.”
Source : "Prince of the City". Sports Illustrated, May 22, 2006.
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“You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.”
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“Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those habits, break the pre- off the -dictable, unsettle the suburbs of your routine sentiments, and rattle the tracks of your trains of thoughts.”
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“In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.”
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“The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.”
Source : "A Natural History of Love". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1994.
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“The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need not be afraid to follow it.”
