- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one wants advice - only corroboration.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
- Curtains
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
- Bottles
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- Nov 07, 2020
So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
- Dedication
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time is the only critic without ambition.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
- Heavy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
- Book Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
- Quicker
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
- Dishonesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
- Emerges
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- Nov 07, 2020