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Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece.
It all boils down to instinct, good or bad. Artistic creation must be spontaneous. It comes from the heart; it has to pass through the brain; and still one needs the guts, and good old, indispensable technique, to bring it to the light of day. That, at least, is how I see the process, not that I have ever been able to pin it down very exactly in my own case. You hear a voice inside. You obey it, and produce whatever it told you to produce; and then you wait and see. And oh! The trouble you're in for.
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
When you hit seventy you sleep sounder, you feel more alive than when you were thirty. Obviously it's healthier to have women on your mind than on your knees.
One does not grow old until he believes he has more to look back on than he has to look forward to.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Considering the alternative ... it's not too bad at all.
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all. Gifted people need not, therefore, make a song and dance about being or supposing themselves superior. They simply happened to be born with that fortunate, subconscious equipment of theirs, and the mystery exists independently of intelligence or ambition.
The crime of loving is forgetting.
Do not be afraid to be afraid.
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
