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A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
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If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
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Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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We get sick because of something inside going wrong! We get well because of something inside going right!
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There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
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If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.
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I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.
