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"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."
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Personal Development
"Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist."
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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."
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"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."
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"And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got."
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"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."
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"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
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"And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!"
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"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."
Money
"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."
Happiness
"The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality."
Quality
"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
Earth
"It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld."
People
"If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves."
Reading
"There is nothing so habit-forming as money."
Money
"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
Writing
"In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going."
Woman
"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience."
Experience
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