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"Sometimes you are damn wrong and you just don't get it."
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"For how long is there a superior? For as long as one makes mistakes. When mistakes cease to happen, there will be no superior thereafter."
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"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience."
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"Don't be defeatist due to the mistakes you make. Mistakes are inevitable part of growth."
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"We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past."
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"If 'pratikraman' happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad)."
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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
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"Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing."
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"We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones."
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"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
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"And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War."
War
"I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry."
Poetry
"I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something."
Success
"I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper."
Writing
"I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe."
People
"Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister."
Time
"My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels."
Success
"Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves."
Inspirational
"When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking."
Society
"But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience."
Experience
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