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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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Personal Development
"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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Personal Development
"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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Personal Development
"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
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Personal Development
"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth."
History
"I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech."
Thought
"It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
Car
"There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative."
Fiction
"Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing."
People
"The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century."
Reason
"Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society."
Art
"Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go."
Writing
"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
Being
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
Writing
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