Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be in as much trouble as I am!
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
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I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.
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Thoreau, Walden anıları ve bilinen denemeleri dışında
yirmi dört yıl boyunca düzenli olarak iki milyon kelimeyi bulan günlükler tutar. Son Cümledeki söz konusu yedi yüz kitap satılmayıp yayınevinin gönderdiği kendi kitabı.
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Görseller: Thoreau Replika kulübesinde bulunan yazı masası
İkinci görsel: Abelardo Borell / Thoreau's Desk
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