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"The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses."
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"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."
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"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible."
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"As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day."
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"Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means."
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