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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
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Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it o
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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wo
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
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A Writerneeds three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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A Writermust teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
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