Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.

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Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

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Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

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Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

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The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

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News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

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I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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