The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

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When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

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The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

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We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

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Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

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Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

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We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

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The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

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Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

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