"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."

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"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."

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"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."

Doris Lessing, English Writer

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"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish."

Marcus Fabius Quintilian, Roman Philosopher

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"As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable."

Armand Assante, American Actor

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"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Silence is the wit of fools."

Anatole France, French Novelist

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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."

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"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people."

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"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."

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"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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"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."

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"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself."

"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."

"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."

"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."

"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish."

"As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."

"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool."

"I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable."

"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."

"Silence is the wit of fools."

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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."

"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people."

"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."

"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."

"We pay when old for the excesses of youth."

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"She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years."

"Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write."

"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."

"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."