Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
It takes a genius to whine appealingly.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
The victor belongs to the spoils.
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
That was always my experience-- a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton ... . However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.
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