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"The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected."
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"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."
"Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft."
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
"It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it."
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
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"When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."
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"There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end."
"I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this."
"The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be."
"Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out."
"A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted."
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