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People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

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Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

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Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

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There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. ↗

— Edwin Markham

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I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in. ↗

— Merrill Markoe

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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere. ↗

— Marcus Valerius Martial

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In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#believe #commitment #contrast #difference #entire

My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

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