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"I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Being is more important than doing."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction."
Church
"It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?"
Humor
"I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher."
Being
"I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed."
Being
"As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted."
Teaching
"The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them."
Truth
"It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another."
Creativity
"Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher."
Commonsense
"It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri."
School
"There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed."
Trust
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