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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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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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