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"It will be sent that, although the writer's love is verily a jealous love, it is a jealousy for and not of his creatures. He will tolerate no interference either with them or between them and himself."
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"It will be sent that, although the writer's love is verily a jealous love, it is a jealousy for and not of his creatures. He will tolerate no interference either with them or between them and himself."
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"A writer always begins by being too complicated-he's playing at several games at once."
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"I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment."
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"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."
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"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."
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"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"
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"Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making."
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"If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be."
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"Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly."
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"I have a handful of prayers that I pray all the time... One is that God will put my books into the right hands at the right times. I've prayed this prayer thousands of times, and God has answered it in dramatic fashion countless times. The right book in the right hands at the right time can save a marriage, avert a mistake, demand a decision, plant a seed, conceive a dream, solve a problem, and prompt a prayer. That is why I write. And that's why, for me, a book sold is not a book sold; a book sold is a prayer answered. I don't know the name and situation of every reader, but God does, and that's all that matters."
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"Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject."
Death
"While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern."
Time
"Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse."
Truth
"At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!"
Purpose
"There were crimson roses on the bench, they looked like splashes of blood."
Nature
"(One character on another:) "Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?"
Affection
"To learn six subjects without remembering how they were learnt does nothing to ease the approach to a seventh, to have learnt and remembered the art of learning makes the approach to every subject an open door."
Learning
"On marriage and permanent attach."
Marriage
"The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere."
Society
"He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain."
Balance
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