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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
At moments we are all artists.
Most people sleep themselves stupid.
Being a husband is a whole-time job.
The moment you're born you're done for.
I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.
Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.
Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.
Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.
Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.
If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.
Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.
Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.
The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.
We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
