Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

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A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

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