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- I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.
- If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.
- It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.
- There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look,…
- We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble.
- Don't make everyone know about your sadness.
- Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they…
- A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has…
- If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and…
- Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don’t make me mean. I don’t want to be. If you will let everybody like me,…
- Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what…
- If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone…
- But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's…
- A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's…
- Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on…
- In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.
- At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You…
- Do you take pride in your hurt?' Samuel asked. 'Does it make you seem large and tragic? . . . Maybe you're playing a part…
- You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.
- I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.
- I seen it over an' over—a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing…
- It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it…
- There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling…
- This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan…
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