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• When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.
• Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
• Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.
• Every death is like the burning of a library.
• When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
• In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
• I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others…
• Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and…
• You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's…
• I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the…
• Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that…
• I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something…

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