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Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

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For America is composed not of two sorts of people, but of two frames of mind - the first engaged in doing what is would like to do, the second preten...more

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If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

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The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growing, gathering light and storing it - then after an...more

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A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.

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There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. ...more