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"Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."
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"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."
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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."
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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."
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"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."
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"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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"The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being."
Life


"Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled."
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"It is such a relief to be told the truth."
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"Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you."
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"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."
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"Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning."
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"Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined."
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"Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else."
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"I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing."
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"One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it."
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