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- "A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. "
- "A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea. "
- "An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have ..."
- "As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more ..."
- "Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. "
- "Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and ..."
- "Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also ..."
- "Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. "
- "Fame is a constant effort. "
- "I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. "
- "I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if ..."
- "I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. "
- "If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. "
- "It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For ..."
- "It is not how old you are, but how you are old. "
- "Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. "
- "Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. "
- "Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long ..."
- "Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for ..."
- "On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. "
- "Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart. "
- "Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three ..."
- "The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice. "
- "The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an ..."
- "The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not ..."
- "The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the ..."
- "There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened. "
- "There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees ..."
- "Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock. "
- "We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, ..."
- "We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their ..."
- "We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life. "
- "Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too ..."
- "Words are the small change of thought. "
- "Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no ..."
