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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"That was not what men and women fought for during the war."
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"The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets."
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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."
Dream
"It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid."
Courage
"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."
Man
"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination."
Experience
"I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation."
Career
"They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men."
Man
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
Character
"There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones."
Time
"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter."
Writing
"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
Discipline
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