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"In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth."
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"What you believe, that is your truth, that you will attract and, for sure, that will manifest in your life."
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"Knowledge is air to the wise. Wisdom is poison to a fool."
"To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death."
"If you light a fire, you cannot conceal the smoke."
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"Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?"
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"I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes."
"I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority."
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