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“All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.”
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“It takes one-third of your overall writing energy just to keep the world far enough away so that you are able to concentrate while writing and still close enough so that you can go out and live when your day's work is done.”
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“Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor.”
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“... if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove any thing.”
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“Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.”
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“The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.”
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“Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?”
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“Packing is chiefly planning — if it is