"If you have to do it every day, for God’s sake learn to do it well."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

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"I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble."

— Cormac McCarthy

Literature1933–2023

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"I don't mind a good fight. For reasons known only to God, I've had quite a few tough ones in my life. But I learned an important lesson along the way: In the end, it matters less that you can fight. W…"

— John McCain

Politics1936–2018

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"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."

— Ernest Hemingway

Literature1899–1961

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