"The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be."

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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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Andrew Carnegie, American Businessman

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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."

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"The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day."

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"I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers."

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"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."

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"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."

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"The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected."

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"Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor."

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"A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted."

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"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."

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