English
Novelist
English Novelist
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
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Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
