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A fallow field is a sin.

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I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

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No one wants advice - only corroboration.

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It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and losses has it coming.

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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

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Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

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Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. And there's an opening convey of generalities. A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

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Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat add victory.

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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

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The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

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I know this -- a man got to do what he got to do.

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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

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I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

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Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

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Lord, how the day passes It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

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Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

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A journey is a person in itself no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip a trip takes us.

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

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We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say -- and to feel -- ''Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.''

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