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"Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it."
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"Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine."
"The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime."
"Doctors is all swabs."
"I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it."
"Any profession you engage in, no matter how profitable, unless it is truly helpful and good for others, is a crime against your soul, and the world."
"The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession."
"Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress."
"The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades."
"Authorpreneurship is the businesses side of writing."
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"But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds."
"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."
"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out."
"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything."
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