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"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."

"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."

"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."

"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."

"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."

"Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint."

"The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't."
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"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."


"There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it."


"As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me."


"Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words."


"The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars."
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