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- The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.
- There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
- Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
- We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one.
- What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man,…
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never…
- There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.
- I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time…
- Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round & wet & crowded. At the outside, babies,…
- Each one of us has to be what he or she is.
- That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.
- . . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a…
- No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.
- Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and…
- I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it ...
- One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a…
- I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical,…
- Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other…
- True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
- If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
- Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
- One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have…
- In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out…
- You are better than you think. A-one, a-two a-three.
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