You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
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Pearls mean tears.
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I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
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Literature is analysis after the event.
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