Marty Rubin Quotes

#1. To go to any extreme is to limit oneself.

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#2. The weaker the will, the stronger the faith.

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#3. Violence has given anger a bad name.

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#4. I wish all the dead ideas would stay dead.

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#5. We are changed by the things we try to change.

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#6. Emotion is the poetry of life.

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#7. Better to stay home than travel in a hurry.

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#8. Man is the only creature for whom being alive isn't enough.

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#9. We choose our friends; our enemies choose us.

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#10. Words could never satisfy me, but life satisfies me.

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#11. It's not the wound that teaches, but the healing.

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#12. Poetry is sublime nonsense.

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#13. Some stories end in despair, some begin there

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#14. An artist's work is one long conversation with life.

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#15. You don't have to have a dream for it to come true.

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#16. Sometimes out of sheer perversion reality conforms to my wishes.

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#17. Parrots mimic their owners. Their owners consider that a sign of intelligence.

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#18. You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.

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#19. Truth is in the middle against all sides.

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#20. When one is well-read, one has a lot of illusion to overcome.

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#21. The greatest wisdom is indistinguishable from the greatest folly.

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#22. A blind man sees with his cane, like all the rest of us.

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#23. All poets are religious poets.

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#24. Self-hatred is the ultimate degradation.

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#25. Work is the ultimate addiction.

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#26. Unseen influences are the most persuasive.

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#27. To keep a warm heart in a cold world is the real victory.

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#28. In a heart that truly loves life grief is always transitory.

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#29. Destiny exists only in retrospect.

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#30. Everything an artist smells, hears, tastes, touches becomes part of his art.

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#31. The secret to being a good traveler is liking a place before you get there.

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#32. When sunlight does to the surface of water, music does to the spirit.

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#33. Life is beautiful, life is good. There should be signs and posters everywhere.

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#34. There is only one thing that matters in art-to express one's individuality.

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#35. What is the meaning of a cactus flower? It exists, that's all.

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#36. Life and love are never what you think they are.

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#37. Thinking must never be a substitute for action.

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#38. What is true for one time only is truer than what's always true.

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#39. Drink freely the wine life offers you and don't worry how much you spill.

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#40. Since our fears are mostly imaginary denial makes good sense.

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#41. It's the children who never played with fire that get burnt.

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#42. Make fun, not war.

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#43. What you can't do, you don't know.

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#44. Beware of becoming a pawn in your own game.

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#45. Fear is to the mind what sickness is to the body.

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#46. One is free, and at the mercy of everything.

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#47. When you are the problem, it's hard to see it.

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#48. You don't learn art from life, or life from art.

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#49. Nothing else is needed to be a complete human being than to have been born a human being

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#50. Even music can't compete with the wildflowers and waterfalls.

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#51. When an audience shares your prejudices you can always count on their applause.

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#52. Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you.

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#53. Any place is a good place to begin.

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#54. Magic is not what magicians can do, but what they can't do.

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#55. Who can I speak for but myself?

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#56. Ideology is the product of a kind of mad logic.

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#57. Lying for lying's sake is the inspiration behind all great fiction.

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#58. How often have our own tears blinded us to the tears of others.

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#59. No one can understand human reality without understanding human imagination.

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#60. One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much.

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#61. We're all drifters here, embarked on an aimless journey

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#62. We fear the calm more than the storm.

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#63. The ripe apple falls, it doesn't know what else to do.

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#64. Of all the sweet things in a human life, close companionship is the sweetest.

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#65. A new theory doesn't change the way things actually happen.

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#66. Change is always trivial compared to what doesn't change.

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#67. Feel free to follow your own path while I follow mine.

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#68. Try me. I'm always in the mood for something else.

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#69. When dealing with one's internal demons, denial works best.

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#70. Growing old and cheerful means learning to live with all the contradictions.

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#71. When we face death, really face it, we realize that only love matters.

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#72. Humor is detachment, and detachment sets you free.

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#73. A breath, to keep one going, must be one's own.

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#74. Wrapped up in our thoughts we can't hear love or beauty's song.

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#75. Opinions are what make you old.

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#76. The hard thing isn't getting what you want, it's knowing what you want.

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#77. How beautiful to touch another's soul with a word, a gesture, a thought.

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#78. Applause: the echo of a prejudice.

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#79. Children remind us that we're all children.

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#80. The scientist seeks laws; the historian, causes; the artist, freedom.

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#81. Scientific reality is as different from lived reality as a slide rule is from a platypus.

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#82. Love has no future, if we don't love now.

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#83. In my travels I found no answers, only wonders.

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#84. Art should be a great hallelujah to life.

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#85. Nothing succeeds like indifference to success.

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#86. Thirst is a language even the grass understands.

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#87. An aphorism needn't be true, but it should sound true.

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#88. The saddest thing about old age is our idea of it.

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#89. All hate is the result of people refusing to take responsibility for their own lives.

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#90. Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it.

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#91. Realism is life minus the poetry.

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#92. The wasp that loses its stinger, dies.

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#93. Thoughts are phantoms. And when you fight with phantoms they always win.

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#94. Cities are built out of poet's dreams.

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#95. There is no sweeter pleasure than wandering aimlessly about.

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#96. Space-the illusion that one is getting somewhere.

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#97. Words of the hero: "I am my fate.

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#98. You can't learn anything from a person who knows everything.

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#99. It is not necessary to corrupt people's morals. Their morals have been corrupting them for years.

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#100. Silence has a grammar all its own.

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