"Don't come to New York until you've finished a book. It's too expensive. You'll never write anything. You'll spend all your time working to pay the rent."

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“See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven.”
“The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church. This treaty shows the whole world clearly and unequivocally that the assertion that National Socialism is hostile to religion is a lie.”
“How did the dolphins and whales get such big brains? They obviously don't need such big brains to catch fish.”

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“Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.”
“All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.”
“POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.”
“A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision”
“Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration.”

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