Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRemember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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