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"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."
"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."
"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."
"There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work."
"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."
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