A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
Civilization begins with distillation
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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