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If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

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The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growing, gathering light and storing it - then after an...more

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A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.

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There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. ...more

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I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock beca...more

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America is a willingness of the heart.

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

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Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.