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"It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes."
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"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."
"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."
"To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world."
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."
"We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that."
"The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery."
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"Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth."
"For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are."
"The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation."
"The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud."
"He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can."
"In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between."
"It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes."
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