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Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.
The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.
Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.
If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.
It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
A bad memory is the mother of invention.
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom ...
When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.
We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
