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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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