• Feelings

  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.

  4.1 · 30 votes · 187 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  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.

  4.3 · 61 votes · 9 reads

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• Various

  Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

  3.3 · 10 votes · 0 reads

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• Virtues

  I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

  4.4 · 31 votes · 43 reads

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• Art and Culture

  I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

  3.6 · 39 votes · 24 reads

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• Art and Culture

  If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.

  3.8 · 49 votes · 12 reads

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• Virtues

  Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

  3.3 · 29 votes · 120 reads

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• Art and Culture

  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

  4.7 · 25 votes · 187 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

  3.2 · 24 votes · 153 reads

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• Art and Culture

  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

  3.6 · 48 votes · 27 reads

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• Society

  The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it’s the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

  4.6 · 64 votes · 192 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

  4.4 · 31 votes · 151 reads

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• Virtues

  The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

  3.2 · 58 votes · 94 reads

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• Feelings

  The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

  4.8 · 13 votes · 181 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

  3.3 · 8 votes · 140 reads

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• Virtues

  When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

  4.4 · 61 votes · 152 reads

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• Writers6 of their quotes
• Patience2 of their quotes
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• Literature2 of their quotes
• Conscience1 of their quote
• Failure1 of their quote