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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. More about this quote
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which...
Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade...
Art should simplify. That is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form...
Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us [Americans] almost like a national disease. Our literature...
II would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them -- without a...
. . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the...
It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the...
The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with...
A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful...
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your...
I suppose art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. More about this quote
But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.Source: Quoted...
The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.Source: In An...
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City -- New York City is itself a detective...
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from...
The public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.Source: All This &...
When you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with...
I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is...
Surely a king who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory. More about this quote
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