Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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Hope costs nothing.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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