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- I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian Fleming (1908 - 1964)
- First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.
- Martin Myers
- Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
- Peter De Vries
- The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
- Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984)
- Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
- Rex Stout (1886 - 1975)
- Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960), Nods and Becks, 1944
- The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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