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"Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing."
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"The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though we think that will be all right; and second, when and how S-1 will resolve itself."
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"My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business..."
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"Nobody knows the aftermath."
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"One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions."
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"The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe."
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"If all the seven stones were laid out before me now, I should shut my eyes and put my hands in my pockets."
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"The beauty of life is in its uncertainty."
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"I see a brightportionunder the overhead lightthat shades intodarknessand then into darkerdarknessand I can't see beyond that."
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"You think that you know what will happen... but think again!"
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"Life has no map; it's made of random events, always caused by something beyond your control."
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"I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink."
Life
"I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think."
Friendship
"With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now."
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"Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around."
Life
"Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing."
Want
"I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women."
Life
"I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know."
Creativity
"Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition."
People
"I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it."
People
"I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself."
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