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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.

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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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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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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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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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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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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.
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Called Mere Necromancy Poll Science Talking

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