"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
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"I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty."
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"Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves."
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"My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe."
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"There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted."
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"Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost."
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"I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman."
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"Nothing happens... but first a dream."
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"There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere"
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"We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written."
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"Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are."
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"And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?"
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"The shovel is the brother to the gun."
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"I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor."
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"A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man."
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"Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike."
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"a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is."
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"I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct."
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"A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake."
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"Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps."
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