A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
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Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
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