Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Romance is everything.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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We are always the same age inside.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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