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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard."
Work
"You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness."
Happiness
"I always want to write something better than the last book."
Want
"I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in."
Time
"Continuity is one of the things I like about New England."
Writing
"People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense."
People
"The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression."
Society
"At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done."
Travel
"Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living."
Being
"When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life."
Life
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