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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

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Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

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As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

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Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

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