Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

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Live it up so you can write it down.

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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

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The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

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You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

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In order to write about life first you must live it.

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