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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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