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"Beware of a man with manners."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do."
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"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose."
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"A good snapshot stops a moment from running away."
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"Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations."
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"Beware of a man with manners."
Man

"Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it."
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"It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass."
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"Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame."
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"A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within."
Life

"Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists."
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"Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life."
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