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"The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be."
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"Suffer fools gladly; they may be right."
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"I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!"
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"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself."
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"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."
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"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."
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"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."
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"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"
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"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
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"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."
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"There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon."
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"When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."
Books
"A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts."
Home
"The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be."
Fool
"With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents."
People
"A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted."
Living
"The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress."
Work
"Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out."
Writing
"There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end."
Beginning
"Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor."
Writing
"They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive."
Time
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