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"Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."
"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."
"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."
"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works."
"A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back."
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