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"It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful."
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"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."
"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot, reading is the creative center of a writer's life, you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."
"I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it."
"You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."
"When you go beyond your limitations, that is called success."
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"Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones."
"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent."
"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."
"Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures."
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