Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience
The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not.
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Civilization begins with distillation
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