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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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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 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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Hawaii and Fiji are two of the best island groups in the world to visit as a vacationer. The great hotels, the fascinating local people, the exciting history of the two contrasting island groups, and the unmatched scenery make these two of the most enticing stopovers.

Best Contrasting Exciting Fascinating
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When I first pitched my Navy tent on the island of Espiritu Santo to the north of Vila, the natives on nearby Malakula were cannibals. Today, they have representation in the United Nations.

Cannibals First Island Nations
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I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on. It's a feast.

Characters Defined Explanation Feast
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Honest to God, I do all the research on these books myself.
Books God Honest Myself
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If there was a turning point for me, it was 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri.' It is a very fine short novel. But it gave me very little satisfaction. Really. I decided I wasn't going to go down that avenue.

Avenue Bridges Decided Down
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Whenever I start a book, I swear it's going to be a short one. But then it's, 'Who was his grandfather? And how did he get there in the first place? And what kind of animals is he chasing?'

Animals Book Chasing Did
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I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Advice Beginning Bit Hammerstein
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You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Brought Take Thoughts Today
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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

About Bring Efforts Inevitably
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No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Duty More Returning Than
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Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
Bad Bear Fruit Good
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Become Day Dream Dreams
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

Aspiration Become Controlling Desire
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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Above Aim Devote Legitimate
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Achievement Acorn Angel Bird
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In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

Affairs Effort Efforts Human
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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Anything Courage Greatest Honor
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Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Beautiful Gentle Nothing Presence
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The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Act Character Destiny Habit
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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Being Choice Every He
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Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
Circumstances Him Make Man
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No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Capable Gravitate Heart His
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A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

Adjustment Being Conditioned Happiness
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A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Director Discovers He His
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He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Accomplish Achieve Attain Greatly
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