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"Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear."
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"In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child."
"You know you are in pure love when you see only the beauty inside you and all around you."
"Falling in love is very easy, but staying in love is very difficult."
"I was a watchful boy being raised by a father I didn't admire. In a desperate way, I needed the guidance of someone who could show me another way of becoming a man. It was sometime during the year when I decided I would become the kind of man that Bill Dufford was born to be. I wanted to be the type of man that a whole town could respect and honor and fall in love withthe way Beaufort did when Bill Dufford came to town to teach and shape and turn its children into the best citizens they could be."
"The mind judges in order to love. The heart just loves unconditionally."
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"The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence."
"A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends."
"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."
"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."
"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."
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