Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

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It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

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Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

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It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

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It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

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