“ Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. ”
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“ You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. ”
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“ I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, ‘To hell with you.’ ”
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“ It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart. ”
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“ I wonder whether there will ever be enough tranquility under modern circumstances to allow our contemporary Wordsworth to recollect anything. I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness that characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. ”
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“ A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking. ”
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“ The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether. ”
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“ With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything... ”
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“ I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with deathbecause one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses. ”
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“ Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. ”
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“ You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. ”
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“ I wonder whether there will ever be enough tranquility under modern circumstances to allow our contemporary Wordsworth to recollect anything. I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness that characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. ”
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“ You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. ”
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“ There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep. ”
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“ For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a mass. Transformed by science. Under organized power. Subject to tremendous controls. In a condition caused by mechanization. After the late failure of radical hopes. In a society that was no community and devalued the person. Owing to the multiplied power of numbers which made the self negligible. Which spent military billions against foreign enemies but would not pay for order at home. Which permitted savagery and barbarism in its own great cities. At the same time, the pressure of human millions who have discovered what concerted efforts and thoughts can do. As megatons of water shape organisms on the ocean floor. As tides polish stones. As winds hollow cliffs. The beautiful supermachinery opening a new life for innumerable mankind. Would you deny them the right to exist? Would you ask them to labor and go hungry while you yourself enjoyed oldfashioned Values? You—you yourself are a child of this mass and a brother to all the rest. or else an ingrate, dilettante, idiot. There, Herzog, thought Herzog, since you ask for the instance, is the way it runs. ”
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“ If you could arrange to avoid that routine jobworld, you were an intellectual or an artist. Too restless, tremorous, agitated, too mad to sit at a desk eight hours a day, you needed an institution a higher institution. ”
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“ If you could arrange to avoid that routine jobworld, you were an intellectual or an artist. Too restless, tremorous, agitated, too mad to sit at a desk eight hours a day, you needed an institution a higher institution. ”
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“ Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. ”
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“ Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. ”
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“ The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough… ”
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“ I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available. ”
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“ I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery. ”
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“ Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. ”
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“ As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting — the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began… ”
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“ I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery. ”
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“ California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. ”
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