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I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.
Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.
The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.
My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.
As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.
The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.
The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.
The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.
In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.
Material wealth is either a window through which we see God or a mirror in which we see ourselves.
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.
The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.
The point to remember is that a giant leap into space can be a giant leap toward peace down below.
To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.
I like talking to myself and making patterns out of the letters of the alphabet on blank surfaces.
I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.
I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.
Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human.
Kids, Madison Avenue is lying to you. Your parents are lying to you. The president is lying to you.
One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.
One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.
I do think that travel can be part of a journey of inner maturation, but you've got to do it right.
I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.
Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.
The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you.
If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.
They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.
One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.
Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.