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"A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind."
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"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."
"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."
"To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind."
"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
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"I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day."
"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times."
"The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it."
"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."
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