"The land is so much more than its analysis."
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"New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world."
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"I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate."
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"A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive."
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"It don't cost money to ask."
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"Just set one day's work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. And that's the only way it does."
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"for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them."
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"Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now."
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"No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity."
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"In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste."
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"The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size."
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"Luck, you see, brings bitter friends."
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"The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people."
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"A fallow field is a sin."
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"You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like."
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"If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich."
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"I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy."
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"Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't afford to kill jackrabbits no more. Catch 'em and milk 'em an' turn 'em loose. One you seen prob'ly gone dry."
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"The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man."
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"I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy."
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