It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. … A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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