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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

More financial instability will introduce more uncertainty all down the line.

When I found out more about the Maori culture, I fell in love with it, and with the people, too.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

Rich people see every dollar as a “seed” that can be planted to earn a hundred more dollars, which can then be replanted to earn a thousand more dollars.

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

I’m proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.