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Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
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In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.
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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.
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Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.
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It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
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Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
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I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
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We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
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A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
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The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
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There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
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