The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The world has no room for cowards.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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