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"Great writers create, writers of smaller gifts copy."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
"Music heals all forms of misery."
"Only sick music makes money today."
"Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career."
"People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do."
"Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life."
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"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."
"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."
"Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous."
"I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written."
"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation."
"Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less."
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