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"I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation."
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"Eric Schmid explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job-fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them. Politics and stagnation set in, and everyone falters, He told me, "If you're offered a seat on a rocket sip, you don't ask what seat. You just get on."
"Joblessness gives you time to grow."
"The game has basically not changed since I ended my career."
"Losing your job shows you the worth of your time rather the worth of money."
"When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got."
"As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years."
"I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy."
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"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home."
"Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression."
"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself."
"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."
"For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find."
"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
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