It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
If there is a God what the hell is He for?
No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
Wonder. Go on and wonder.
I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
History is not was, it is.
Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...
Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.
Try to be better than yourself.
No man can write who is not first a humanitarian
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.
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