I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. |
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. |
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home |
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. |
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression. |
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them. |
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them. |
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you. |
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both. |
The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. |
There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones. |
They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men. |
Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you |