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- It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
- Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
- The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
- The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
- Henry S. Haskins
- The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), quoted in New York Times, March 19, 1940
- Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." - Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
- The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973
- Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
- Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
- Stanislaw Lem (1921 - 2006)
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