The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

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

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

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The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

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Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.

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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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Never mistake motion for action.

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You must be prepared to work always without applause.

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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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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

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