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I was messing around with the harmonica. . . but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

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It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

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The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

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And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

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Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

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to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

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