A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. MILNEWar is something of man’s own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
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The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.
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Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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It is hard to be brave, when you’re only a very small animal.
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She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.
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Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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To seem natural rather than to be natural.
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The hardest part is what to leave behind, It’s time to let go!
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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
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Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
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Tigers don’t like honey.
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It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.
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