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Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

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It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

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If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

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When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

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The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.

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In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

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I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now, in spirit, since I was fourteen and entertained Jim Wolf with the wasps. I am only able to perceive that I am old by a mental process; I am altogether unable to feel old in spirit. It is a pity, too, for my lapses from gravity must surely often be a reproach to me. When I am in the company of very young people I always feel that I am one of them, and they probably privately resent it.

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It is your human environment that makes climate

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Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

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You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

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Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

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Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

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Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.

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