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" Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic. "

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

" I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. "

" No one wants advice - only corroboration. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. "

" Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. "

" In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. "

" One can find so many pains when the rain is falling. "

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

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

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

" These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new. "

" I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. "