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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."
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"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home."

"Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression."

"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself."

"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination."

"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."

"For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find."
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