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• Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
• Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten…
• You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's…
• No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it…
• A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is…
• As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
• Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.
• Everything in a story should be credible.
• Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
• I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
• I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
• I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

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