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"Look here, said Will. "When a man comes to me for advice about an idea, I know he doesn'twant advice. He wants me to agree with him. And if I want to keep his friendship I tell him his idea isfine and go ahead. But I like you and you're a friend of my family, so I'm going to stick my neck out."
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"I'd had a really bad day and you hurt me.His hand at my jaw tensed and he kept whispering when he said, 'I'll probably do it again, Red,because I'm a man and any man can be a dick. But I won't do it like that, not again. I know you got softunder that attitude and I'll have a mind to that."
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"I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks were expected to be civilized to one another, honest, and - and clear. You relied on people being what they said they were, because there was no other way to survive."
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"Your thoughts are transparent."
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"The truth is considered hatred by those who hate the truth."
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"I don't think there's anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn't fashionable."
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"The wishes of an honest man do not stretch beyond what he undoubtedly deserves."
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"Unfortunately, people who always tell the truth don't have many friends."
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"Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon."
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"Honest dishonesty. That's quite the oxymoron " but I like the originality that you've brought to bear in the art of rationalization. Maybe you should consider becoming a lawyer, he added jokingly."
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"Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity."
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"Well, we all got to make a livin'.""Yeah," Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else."
Life
"We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it."
Time
"No one wants advice - only corroboration."
Advice
"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."
People
"I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."
Travel
"Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play."
Writing
"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."
Literature
"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."
Man
"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."
Power
"In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground."
Nature
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