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A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at least,…

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Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what…
Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But…
Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to…
You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.
And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects…
Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and…
Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his…
Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that…
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

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If there is no intelligence in the universe, then the universe has created something greater than itself-for it has created you and… — Bruce Barton
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good… — G. H. Hardy
HAIL HERMES! Mr. Lantiere has created something very special for all of us who love the history of mystery. The Magicician's Wand… — Jeff McBride
The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in...He has not created something,he has seen something. — Thomas Ernest Hulme
Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality… — Charlotte Gray
If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess… — Ziggy Marley
A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself --… — Katherine Anne Porter
I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable. — La Monte Young
I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get. — Cathy Guisewite
And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just… — Donna Tartt
I have just created something totally illogical. — Ray Kinsella
Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it… — Kurt Vonnegut

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