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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
