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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
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Personal Development
"I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss."
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Personal Development
"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."
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Personal Development
"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."
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Personal Development
"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."
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Personal Development
"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."
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Personal Development
"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."
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Personal Development
"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."
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Personal Development
"When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man."
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Personal Development
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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"Art is the triumph over chaos."
Art
"Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world."
Love
"The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony."
People
"For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty."
Beauty
"Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time."
Time
"Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two."
Wisdom
"The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable."
Love
"What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power."
Power
"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."
Fiction
"I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone."
Love
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