Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.
It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family.
I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing. If you cant think of any other way to surprise them, give them a bust in the jaw.
I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness--people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.
That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from its steeples.
The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.
Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
You have to write badly in order to write well.
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.
...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling
It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. All the wrong environment will do is run his blood pressure up; he will spend more time being frustrated or outraged. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
I am not one of those women who can stand things.
Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.
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