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Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
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On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training
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If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
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I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
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Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.
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The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
