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"The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades."
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"Any profession you engage in, no matter how profitable, unless it is truly helpful and good for others, is a crime against your soul, and the world."
"You " help - people. You are an expert in your field, who genuinely helps other human beings. Take pride in that, stop hawking your wares, and get a bit of respect for your profession, and earn some from your prospects."
"Authorpreneurship is the businesses side of writing."
"Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat."
"The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect."
"Doctors is all swabs."
"The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime."
"I was good at being a doctor my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege."
"The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession."
"High-quality professions look decently, think profoundly, and act thoughtfully."
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"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?"
"The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe."
"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."
"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress."
"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it."
"It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."
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