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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Mind anything Anyone else Judge
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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

Enumerate High civilization Countries
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Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

Around Back Chopped Country
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There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

AllThings Conservatism Constitution Describing
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Man Pretends Understand Women
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
I hold Sufficiently justified Love
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Life Predicament Death
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We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Dark Have Our doubt Passion
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In art economy is always beauty.

In art Economy Beauty
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Deep experience is never peaceful.

Deep experience Peaceful
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Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
Money Thing Follow Charming
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Takes Great deal History Little literature
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

Right time Lucky Have
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Certain circumstances Hours Life
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Summer afternoon Most beautiful Words
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Art Makes life Makes importance Substitute
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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

Kill Human being.injury
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Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare.
Because Debt Exploding Medicare
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Prices are going up. Unemployment continues to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.

Bubble Correction Created Federal
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I'd like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade.

Decade Flavor Like Myself
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Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

Look Most Movies Us
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Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Every Film Great New
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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

Days Dignity Find Happens
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If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

Avoid Better Customs Fear
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I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
Excellent Good Good Writer Very
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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

Emotions Human Human Emotions I Love
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I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

About Army Done Her
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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Character Consists Fourth Third
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Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

Almost America China Country
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The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

Arrogance Artist Profound Thing
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The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Emily Experience Great Imagination
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The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

Confuse Defeat Dreams Life
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There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.
Only Problems Time-Consuming Ones
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Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

About Doing Dream Engineers
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I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

Career Concern Crucial Does
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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Age Because Dark Fails
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

Brought Century Complains Disdain
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It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
Afraid Courage Know Ought
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For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

Else Fail Find Journey
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America is a nation with many flaws that only the stupid would deny, but with hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

Acknowledge America Cowardly Deny
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If you type adeptly with 10 fingers, you're typing faster than your mind is working.

Faster Fingers Mind Than
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Whatever I did, there was always someone around who was better qualified. They just didn't bother to do it.

Always Around Better Bother
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I am the product of the American education system. It is a system that has always been on the lookout for bright boys and girls. It spotted me when I was 14, and I owe a tremendous debt to my alma mater.

Always Am American Been
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I'm just a guy up on a hill writing.
Guy Hill Just Up
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I attended seminars where many social issues were discussed abstractly, outside the pressures of an immediate situation, and there I developed certain attitudes which permitted me to face the real thing when it came along.

Along Attended Attitudes Came
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My work as a naval officer in World War II enabled me to serve on 49 different South Pacific islands so that I came to know the area about as well as anyone.

About Anyone Area Came
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If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a statement there.

Industry Make Man Might
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Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren't for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn't bother me a bit.

Bit Bother Christmas Come
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I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.

Childhood Cycle Device Missed
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A person on dialysis undergoes very heavy and irritating treatment, and in time, it seems more than you can bear.

Bear Heavy Irritating More
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