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"The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be."
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"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."

"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."

"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish."
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"A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted."

"I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers."

"They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive."

"With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents."

"The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected."

"I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this."

"There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end."
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