Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
JOHN STEINBECKTo finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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