"Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's."
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"Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death."
"Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it"
"Much effort, much prosperity."
"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated."
"I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen."
"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."
"An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards."
"True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories."
"The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out."
"No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it."
"Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress."
"Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins."
"This is the worst President ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history."
"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised."
"I expected more from literature than from real, naked life."
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."
"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
"It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today."
"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."