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"A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted."
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"Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right."
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"Having a job does not mean living."
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"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."
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"Life is a reality. Live it with all your heart."
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"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."
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"We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really 'lived' a day in our lives."
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"You can believe in Christ and live a Christ like life."
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"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
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"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
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"Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World."
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"Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know."
Work

"The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress."
Work

"I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this."
Desire

"I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers."
Thought

"The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected."
Heart

"A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted."
Living

"Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor."
Writing

"A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts."
Home

"With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents."
People

"When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."
Books
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