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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development
"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast."
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"Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression."
Creativity
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
Character
"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
Discipline
"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
"There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones."
Time
"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
"It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid."
Courage
"If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life."
Life
"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
"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter."
Writing
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