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"It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find."
Want
"I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps."
Writing
"Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it."
People
"You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation."
Hope
"I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer."
Personal
"Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about."
Relationship
"I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do."
Joy
"So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain."
Writing
"Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies."
Friendship
"My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953."
Battle
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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Personal Development
"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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Personal Development
"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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Personal Development
"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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Personal Development
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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Personal Development
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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Personal Development
"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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Personal Development
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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Personal Development
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