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"I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it."
"A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader."
"If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?"
"In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard."
"In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study."
"The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost."
"It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent."
"Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly."
"At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?"
"Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world."
"Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world."
"There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man."
"Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself."
"America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections."
"Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other."
"In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world."
"The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental."
"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one."
"The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world."
"I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible."
