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What I’ve learned. . . . I’ve learned that just when I get my...
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The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and...
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Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other,...
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It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting...
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There should be less talk a preaching point is not a meeting point. What...
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It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy...
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I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence.
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I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable … but through it all I...
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The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the...
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost...