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"If matters go badly now, they will not always be so."
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Personal Development

"Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself."
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Personal Development

"I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true."
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Personal Development

"I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write."
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Personal Development

"Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid."
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Personal Development

"I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro."
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Personal Development

"As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat."
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Personal Development

"Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke."
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Personal Development

"Will you stand by it now, or will you let the Shylocks come and have their way? It is for you to determine."
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Personal Development

"I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me."
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"I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word."
Curiosity

"You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his."
Spiritual

"Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."
Psychology

"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
Books

"Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end."
Criticism

"The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on."
Life

"I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things."
Emotion

"In order to write about life first you must live it."
Creativity

"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it and not be smashed by it."
Life

"You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them."
Morality
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