who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.
we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.
There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.
Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.
I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.
You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.
The thing is not to follow a pattern. Follow your own pattern of feeling and thought. The thing is to accept your own life and not try to live someone else's life. Look, the thumbprint is not like any other, and the thumbprint is what you must go by.
We are born knowing death.
God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.
It is such a relief to be told the truth.
I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.
I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.
Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?
You waste life when you waste good food.
Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.
Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.
I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.
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