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"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."
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"What you believe, that is your truth, that you will attract and, for sure, that will manifest in your life."

"Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good."

"The most risky liability of your life is 'the unspoken truth'."

"Be true to your love to be true to yourself."

"Knowledge is air to the wise. Wisdom is poison to a fool."

"To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death."

"If you light a fire, you cannot conceal the smoke."
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"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement."


"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."


"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."


"As in most families, the mere struggle to have anything of one's own, to be one's self at all, creates an element of strain that keeps everybody almost at the breaking point."


"And I advise ye to think well, he told her It's better to be a stray dog in this world than a man without money. I've tried it both ways, and I know. A poor man stinks, and God hates him."


"It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of."


"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."


"Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
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