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"Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows."
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"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."
"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot, reading is the creative center of a writer's life, you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."
"I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it."
"You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."
"When you go beyond your limitations, that is called success."
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"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."
"Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead."
"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."
"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
"Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain."
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