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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Craig Venter
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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
Raymond Chandler
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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Arnold H. Glasow
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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.


Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.


Mary Baker Eddy
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It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.


Wilhelm von Humboldt
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A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right.


John Dos Passos
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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
Douglas William Jerrold
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Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
Bernard Baruch
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There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
Saul Alinsky
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau
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The idea of introducing the Seven Seas is absolutely to challenge Aquaman on an emotional and personal level. His responsibility is unification of the world, and that just became a lot more complex when he learns about the fall of Atlantis and the splintering of the kingdoms.
Geoff Johns
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It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself.
Neil Cross
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.


Albert Schweitzer
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
Mark Kennedy
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
William Penn
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.


Mark Twain
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I'm a girl, so I've experienced dismissal because I was a girl or because I write about girls: my book with a guy protagonist is treated as more literary and worthy than my other books with girl protagonists.
Sarah Rees Brennan