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"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."
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"I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least."
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"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it."
"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."
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"Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other."
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"To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard."
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