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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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Personal Development
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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Personal Development
"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store."
Effort
"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions."
Love
"The waste basket is the writer's best friend."
Friendship
"We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children."
Family
"The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it."
Conscience
"A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises."
Life
"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."
Life
"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."
Knowledge
"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times."
People
"When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer."
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