"My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting."

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" Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self. "
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" To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. "
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" The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. "
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" A good sentence is a key. It unlocks the mind of the reader. "
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" Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. "
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" I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind. "
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" Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion, a truth, a leader, a nation, a race, a ... "
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" The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is ... "
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" The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it. "
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" To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. "
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" Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is de... "
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" Our greatest weariness comes from work not done. "
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" We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to d... "
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" A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he take... "
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" Fanatical orthodoxy is in all movements a late development. It comes when the movement is ... "
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" Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith. "
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" Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and... "
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" Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to ... "
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" It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power ... "
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" The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than of deep convic... "
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" To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find hi... "
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" We usually see only the things we are looking for so much so that we sometimes see them... "
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" Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. "
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" The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful pr... "
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" We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we u... "
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" Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it al... "
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" Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolution... "
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" My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while wait... "
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" Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space i... "
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" The capacity to resist coercion stems partly from the individual's identification with a g... "
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" The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to ope... "
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" Rabid suspicion has nothing in it of skepticism. The suspicious mind believes more than it... "
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" The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those ... "
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" A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend. "
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" The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor. "
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" Good writing, like gold, combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is ... "
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" If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I ... "
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" We can never have enough of that which we really do not want, and... we run fastest and fa... "
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" We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. A doctrine that is un... "
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" God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man... "
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" Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come... "
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" When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent... "
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" No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart. "
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" The fear of becoming a "has been" keeps some people from becoming anything. "
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" It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time ... "
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" The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. "
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" It is not good for our efforts at self-realization to know the opinions other people have ... "
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" It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to inven... "
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" There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormousl... "
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" Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, free... "
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" The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic wh... "
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" When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other. "
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" We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. "
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" With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they s... "
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" Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. "
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" The beginning of thought is in disagreement not only with others but also with ourselve... "
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" What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their ... "
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" It is the individual only who is timeless "
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" That which is unique and worthwhile in us makes itself felt only in flashes. If we do not ... "
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" Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourse... "
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" Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in ... "
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" Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a ... "
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" The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are ... "
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" You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you... "
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" The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are fr... "
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" Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas. "
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" The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a despera... "
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" Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. "
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" Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. There can be no mass... "
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" To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our... "
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" It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. "
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"My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting."

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