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- Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have…
- You fail only if you stop writing.
- Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If…
- If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.
- Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is…
- The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting,…
- Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink…
- What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more…
- We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the…
- I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get…
- Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.
- In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can…
- He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a…
- That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.
- The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It…
- We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if…
- Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.
- The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
- Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit…
- That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons…
- Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They…
- Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if…
- They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She was only standing,…
- From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.…
- For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle