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"The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write."
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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."

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"Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves."
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"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."

"The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write."

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."

"Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself."

"We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types."

"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."
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