“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.”
Good“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
Best“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.”
Good“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Happiness“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
Business“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”
Death“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
Good“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.”
Good“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.”
Death“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
Good“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”
Best“I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.”
God“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
Life“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”
Best“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
Men“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”
Architecture“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.”
Success“About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
Good“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
Good“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
Best“Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?”
Failure“I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
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