All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons |
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens. |
All things truly wicked start from an innocence. |
All thinking men are atheists |
All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness. |
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. |
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. |
As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary |
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games. |
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. |
But did thee feel the earth move? |
But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason. |
But in modern war, you die like a dog for no good reason |
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. |
By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure |