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There are some books that

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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When I was a child

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
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It's not that I'm afraid

It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
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In religion and politics people's

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
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The difference between the right

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
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He would come in and

He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.
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Do something every day that

Do something every day that you don't want to do this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
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It takes your enemy and

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
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Don't part with your illusions.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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A classic is a book

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.
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