Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

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I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

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speak, sir, and be wise.
Speak choosing your words, sir, like an old woman over a bushel of apples.

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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

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