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Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on.”
Lead Best Come Books
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Nothing good ever comes of violence

Nothing Good Ever Comes
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The man who has the will to undergo all labour may win to any good.

The Man Who Has
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Ere I descend to th' grave, May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books.

Books Few Friends Garden
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Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Blood Alone Moves Wheels
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism. It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Good Write Kind Book
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For men led by the Colour, and the Shape, Like Zeuxes Birds fly to the painted Grape; Some things do through our Judgment pass As through a Multiplying Glass. And sometimes, if the Object be too far, We take a Falling Meteor for a Star.

Star Far Shape Falling
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I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

About Disappointing Few Friends
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Room Prison World Native
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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

There Is No More
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

Field Crowd Foolish Mirrors
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Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
Bloom Fruit Gone Our
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Others have done it before me. I can, too.

Others Done I can
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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

Day Evening King Sun
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Aim Artist Motion Artificial
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

Room Full More Fill
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Aim Hit May Miss
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Dream Higher Bother Contemporary
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Shape Become Friends Careful
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You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

True Choice Power Always
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Also Art Before Consist
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Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

Given Choice Grief Nothing
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why
Artist Creature Demons Wonder
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There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

Something Jumping Fence Horse
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

Alone Anyone Awakening Back
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It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died

Aim Effort History Life
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

Hollywood Place Stabbed Climbing
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Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

Board Honor Pride Decency
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

Get Good How Learn
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We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Freedom Hierarchy Caste System
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Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window

Read Classics Bad
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The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.

Young man Forgotten Problems Heart
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The company you keep affects the progress you make. Avoid people who have PROBLEMS for every SOLUTION. They will drag you down with them and then blame you for being the one that dragged them down. Keep good company

Company Problems People Solution
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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.

Because Deemed Good Helps
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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Asleep Away Because Fooling
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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Aspirations Poor Poverty Real
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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

Affected Done Good Known
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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Any Become Country Demand
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Ideas Book Essence Great
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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Surface Fully Home Like
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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Life Delight Enjoy Order
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There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

Literature Only School Talent
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Far Flourishing Greater Happy
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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Vast Obscure Series Existence
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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

Any Cheerfulness Christian Course
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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Faith Must Trample Under
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You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.

About Admit Ashamed Gay
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The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Days Each Forever Gone
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Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Prayer Strong Wall Fortress
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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

Detail Hard Submit Exceed
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