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I couldn't wait for success ... so I went ahead without it.
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof crap detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer. ... Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way round.
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.
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Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
Life Quote
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
Success Quote
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Wisdom Quote
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Love Quote
Its better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what your not.
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