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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
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Personal Development
"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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Personal Development
"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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Personal Development
"They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did."
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Personal Development
"Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."
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"Storytelling is what lights my fire."
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Personal Development
"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."
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"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow."
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"These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't."
Love
"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."
Conviction
"I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay."
Development
"But time has set its maggot on their track."
Time
"The function of posterity is to look after itself."
Legacy
"Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party."
Writing
"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest."
Work
"Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction."
Politics
"Though lovers be lost love shall not."
Love
"The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it."
Family
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