“We all have our strengths and our failings.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 136 of 303
“Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.”
“Only good questions deserve good answers.”
“What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?”
“We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.”
“One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.”
“When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.”
“If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations, magnify his peculiarities, inevitably tear him into parts, and, of course, patch him very clumsily together again. What wonder, then, should we be frightened by the aspect of a monster.”
“The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write a poem and you send it to a little magazine, or you write for publication, it always means - the form follows function.”
“He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.”
“If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.”
“Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write.”
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”
“I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew.”
“Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day.”
“I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.”
“Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.”
“The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.”
“We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.”
“A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.”