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" Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. "

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" You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people. "

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" May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? "

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" The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. "

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" It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. "

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" Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. "

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" Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. "