"Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's."
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"Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death."
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"Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it"
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"Much effort, much prosperity."
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"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated."
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"I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen."
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"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."
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"An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards."
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"True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories."
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"The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out."
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"No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it."
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"Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress."
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"Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins."
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"This is the worst President ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history."
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"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised."
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"I expected more from literature than from real, naked life."
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"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today."
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"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."
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