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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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Personal Development
"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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Personal Development
"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."
Books
"Women are extremely important shapers of my own life."
Life
"I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home."
Home
"An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place."
Art
"The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college."
Being
"How can you stop writing?"
Writing
"I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind."
Mind
"Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like."
Time
"Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were."
War
"I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading."
Reading
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