Quote by Paulo Coelho
I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my p

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. – Paulo Coelho

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The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. – Paulo Coelho

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You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. – Paulo Coelho

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We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. – Paulo Coelho

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I knew a man who once said, “death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back.” – Gladiator, written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson, 2000

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Its just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one. – Jeanne Moreau

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Dont be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, its just death. – Lena Horne

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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that death panels would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, its hard to beat Sarah Palins ignorant nattering on the subject. – Carl Hiaasen

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