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Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

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There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

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Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

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The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

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We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

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Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 18th, 1902

Died: February 23rd, 1984

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