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| A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever | | Words | |
| A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing. | | Uncategorized | |
| A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. | | Uncategorized | |
| A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself | | Irony; Sense of humor | |
| Fiction is [a form of writing which] reveals truths that reality obscures. | | Uncategorized | |
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| I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt | | Uncategorized | |
| If I were to join a circle of any kind, it would be one that required its members to try something new at least once a month. The new thing could be inconsequential: steak for breakfast, frog hunting, walking on stilts . . . anything not ordinarily done. | | Uncategorized | |
| If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier. | | Uncategorized | |
| If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one. | | Uncategorized | |
| In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. | | Forgiveness; Mistakes | |
| Justice is a terrible but necessary thing | | Justice | |
| Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. | | Memory | |
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| Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants | | Uncategorized | |
| Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary. | | Talent; Writing | |
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