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A big iron needle stitching the country together.   Life
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.   Life
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of h...   Humor
Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.   Life
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.   Imagination
Groan and forget it.   Life
I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the h...   Life
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from ...   Life
If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.   Life
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit a...   Life
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit a...   Forgiveness
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature h...   Life
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.   Life
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in actin...   Life
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the fut...   History
The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the co...   Life
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is eas...   Life
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the...   Life
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite...   Life