Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

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