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• The best American writers have come from the hinterlands--Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck.
  Most of them never even went to college. -- Edward Abbey...
• What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance?
  -- Theodore Roethke, "In a Dark Time...
• The hookworm larvae enters the human body through the soul.
• The writer is the engineer of the human soul. -- Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
• I'm sure <you> did nothing to discourage this, you scavenger of human misery.
  -- Lisa, "When Flanders Failed...
• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -- Pablo Picasso
• Regret is the disease that eats away at the human soul. -- Genry Pinera [ME]
• We are all of us the victims of a higher power--a power more evil and more terrible than the human brain can imagine.
  -- Theodore Maxtible, EVIL OF THE DALEKS...
• Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
  -- Hannah More (1745-1833) -- Sensibility...