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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
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Only the rocks live forever, Gray Wolf said.
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Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.
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It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
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It was his opinion that a man had to wait until he was dead to know the meaning of God, unless he happened to have known the sea in his youth.
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You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.
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I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.
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Wherever a human being goes, there is a challenge. Be the best man you can, and your gods will look with favor upon you.
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I doubt, dearest child, that you could ever marry a Frenchman. They're not dependable. I've never believed that they're serious Catholics." He
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We are never prepared for what we expect.
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The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.
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I've spent my life trying to be better than I was, and I am a brother to all who share the same aspiration.
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This is not a promise, this is not threat, it's just the way it's gonna be!!!
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
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If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography.
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They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
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On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.
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Chesapeake Bay is like a beautiful woman. There's no humiliation from which she cannot recover.
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When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great man.
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Contrary to what people think, I slave over my books.
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With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.
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No idea is ever dead until those who believe in it say it's dead.
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I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.
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It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.
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From the time that money began to be regarded with honor, the real value of things was forgotten.
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My principal flowers will be trees. Because when you plant trees, you're entitled to believe you'll live forever. So
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An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
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America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
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There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.
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Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
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Don't ever buy Monks Fishing, Stanley.
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All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.
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To have courage. To have honor. Is very beautiful.
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For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.
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Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.
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Writers turn dreams into print.
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If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
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We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves.
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No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.
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The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
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Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you.
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how small he was and how wormy in manner,
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If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.
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First buy a cowboy hat and boots. Then you're on your way to being a Texan.
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If you try it," Whip said, "you'll be thrown out on your inalienable ass.
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I live for the few minutes I can talk with a sensible human being, but every time I do, I feel worse than before.
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It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell.
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I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
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At last he found the branching stream that flowed down from Blue Valley, and now he was guided by the little stone beaver that climbed the cliff.
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To travel across Spain and finally to reach Barcelona is like drinking a respectable red wine and finishing up with a bottle of champagne.
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Never forget, son, when you represent Texas, always go first class.
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Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.
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The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
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(I)f you did not read when you were young, you might never catch the disease and then what would be the use of living?
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The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
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A soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.
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western paintings did not occur.
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Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it.
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I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.
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For of this world one never sees enough and to dine in harmony with nature is one of the gentlest and loveliest things we can do.
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Human affairs are not so happily arranged that the best things please the most men. It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?
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This is the greatest evil that grows out of a wrong act. Somebody always remembers it ... in an evil way.
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In six pages, I can't even say Hello.
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Any spot for which a man's forebears have bled and died will forever be his homeland.
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It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.
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When men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.
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Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.
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For this is the journey that men make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much what else they find.
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The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.
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A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.
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Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.
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I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
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A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.
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The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money.
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