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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Blame Character Talk Writing
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Book Children Shoot Yourself
There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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Concentration Focus World Yourself
A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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Dreams Man Poison Store
It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Funny Intelligence Lose Science Stay Yourself
The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Actor Better Himself Stupidity
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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Born Law Learning Music Painting Perspective Writing Yourself
I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Day Life Live Myself Theory Time
Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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Deep Existence Future Man Past Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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Leaving Remember Talk Voice Wind
Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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Age Children Difficult Luck Past Wisdom Yourself
Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Feeling Home Myself
Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Greatness Growth Patience Time
Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Listening Secret Trouble
The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Advice Brain Heart
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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Bond Friendship Job Time Yourself

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

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