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"I am very grateful for all the opportunities life has given me."

"My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, sharing and loving in order to feel the deepest joy of life."

"The spirit of life, the spirit of peace."
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"Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them."

"In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink."

"There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual."

"I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older."

"Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind."

"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word."
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