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"If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away."
"Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road."
"I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."
"If you don't give up, you still have a chance. And when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength."
"If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles."
"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."
"If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference."
"You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost."
"He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle."
"And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of."
"Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be."
"For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds - and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act."
"What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"
"It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study."
"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."
"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"
"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
"Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful."
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
"Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift."
