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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk
I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience
Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live!
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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