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Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.

Became Because Child Everyone
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What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

Became Brother Distinguished Her
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Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Conservatism Know Secondhand Very
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The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
Art Discussion Drama Intellectual
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The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

However Inevitably Inexperienced Influences
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May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
Down Feel Help Hoping
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Comprehend Eye Mind Only
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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
Forever Gallery Never Playing
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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Call Happen Inner Luck
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What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

About Conservative Declaration Full
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

An anarchist Politics Impressionist
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Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

Against Conservatives Early Government
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

Character Determination Incident
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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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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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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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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Matter True Counts Perceived
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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Never forget Man says Angry
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What you stay close to affects your character. Be very careful what and who you are close to.
Character Very careful Stay close Who
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You can destroy your now and  your future by holding on to the past. The past is what it is, it has passed. Learn from the past and move on

Destroy You can Future The past
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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Character Consists Fourth Third
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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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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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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 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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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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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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A man is literally what he thinks.
He Literally Man Thinks
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Alter Find He Him
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Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

Another Appreciative Christ Had
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When God took it, he accepted it; when he brought it back, he accepted it. That's what's happening with me.

Accepted Back Brought God
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Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

Administration After Any Assessment
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Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?

Bomb Consider Countries Endlessly
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During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary policy. No more. No more.

Campaign Foreign ForeignPolicy Happening
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Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

About Been Daddy Election
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No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is in the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has

No man Tell Rich Poor
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Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.

Depressed Lack Panicked Time
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Soul Without imagination Telescope
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

Whatever True Dangerous Near truth
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What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.
Drives I Love Love Me
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I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

Behind Enjoy Hope Left
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I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

Always Bit Different Grow
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich

World Take up Give up Us rich
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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Heart Man rich According to
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What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred

Courage Think Quality Man
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Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.

Believe Cause Colour Deeply
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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Wisdom Consists Knowing Do next
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But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.

Actually Controls Decide Each
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I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That's what I told my kids.

Being Beneath Earth Every
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