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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.

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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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Hands Man Oneself Religious Worst
Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
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Deep Different Discipline Learning People Process Quite Writer Writing
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Himself Worth Writing
I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Book Fashion Library Love Myself Old
But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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Best Conduct Ourselves Time
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Mindset People Pride Right Talent
I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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Advice Aspiration Career Development Hide Myself Wisdom Writing
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner Rare Win Yourself
Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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Education Learning Writing Yourself
There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
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Born Father Insult Job Man World Yourself
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Enemy Man Wisdom
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself
But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Deep Live Myself People Spiritual
My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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Best God Goodness Hope Limitation Myself Objective Talent Worst
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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Beginning Cleaning End Faith Prejudice Reason
You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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Place Understand Walk Yourself

But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.

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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.

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