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"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination."
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"She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk."
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"There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source."
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"When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!"
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"The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."
"For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find."
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"If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life."
"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
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