“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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