I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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We are always the same age inside.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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