“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
Source: Two Much (1975), Ch. 21
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American novelist 1933–2008Related quotes

Source: The Economic Illusion (1984), Chapter 1, Equality and Efficiency, p. 14
The Encarta Book of Quotations (2000), p. 173 http://books.google.com/books?id=Af84fBmzmVYC&q=%22It+was+long+ago+in+my+life+as+a+simple+reporter+that+I+decided+that+facts+must+never+get+in+the+way+of+truth%22&pg=PA173#v=onepage
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“If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.”

“Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.”
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