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There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

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New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

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There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

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We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

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At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

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All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

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Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

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The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

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The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

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Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

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More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

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