The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life. |
The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post. |
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. |
The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave. |
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. |
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. |
The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe |
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. |
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. |
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food. |
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. |
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. |
There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God. |
There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish wi |
There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover |