There are many reasons for keeping a diary to make a note of facts that one considers important to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish or again from vanity and self-satisfaction.
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.Alberto Moravia
When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
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In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
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Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
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