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" I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. "

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" If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones. "

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

" Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. "

" 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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" 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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" You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. "

" So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda. "

" Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. "

" No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. "

" It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth. "

" We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. "

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" I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier? "

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