Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

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The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

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Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.

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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.

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Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

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