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If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.

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Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

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Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty to me; you men always have some high-sounding excuse for indulging yourselves. You go gallivanting over the earth, climbing mountains, looking for the sources of the Nile; and expect women to sit dully at home embroidering. I embroider very badly. I think I would excavate rather well.

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Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.

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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.

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I knew the answer, and--of course--so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.

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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

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