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Memories Were The Markers Of The Journey Through Life. It Was Necessary To Know Where You Had Come From. Only Then Could You Know Where You Were Going.

And That Works For Me. So That If This Is It, You Better Take It At Its Right Proportion. That There Are Serious Things, But Most Things Are Temporal And Ephemeral, And You Should Cultivate That Attitude. That Joy And Love And All The Verities Are What Counts. So I Try Not To Take Too Many Things Seriously, And If I Find Myself Caught Up In The Seriousness Of The Moment, Within A Period Of Time, I'm Able To Cajole Myself Out Of It.

The Name Shatner Is Austrian And Partly Germanic, And There's Germanic Reticence And Silence Perhaps, But There Is Passion Underneath.

There Were Many Times When I Kept Silent About Being Jewish As I Got Older, When Jewish Jokes Were Told.

What Part Of Me Was Born With The Courage To Stand In Front Of Strangers And Risk Rejection?