The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
(Quoted in The Only Thing That Counts, 1999)

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Courage is grace under pressure.

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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