"You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism."

Truth, Cynicism, Reputation

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"You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism."

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"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."

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"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."

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"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."

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"Beauty is an ecstacy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it."

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"What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with a vulgar slut like you."

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"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."

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"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."

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"To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should have ben born."

Failure

"Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd."

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