"The difficulty of literature is not to write,……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean"
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson has 364 quotes on this site.
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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign…
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting…
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we…
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the…
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon…
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn…
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
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Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties…
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend…
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away,…
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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves…
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