"The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false."
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"Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth."
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"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity."
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"If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge."
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"Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it"
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"I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich."
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"Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy."
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"Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor."
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"The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."
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"I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all."
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"I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting."
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"The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs."
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"Where there is no vision a people perish."
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"When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium."
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"You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages."
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"When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid."
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"When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are."
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"May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering."
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"The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life."
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"Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections within the recipient."
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