Gene Fowler Quotes (23 Quotes)


    Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

    Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

    Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.

    Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.



    I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

    An editor should have a pimp for a brother, so he'd have someone to look up to.

    He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

    If they haven't heard it before it's original.

    I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

    Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

    Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

    Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

    Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

    Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

    I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

    The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

    They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

    Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

    News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

    For the first time, we're starting to get at the biological base of what makes a human. I think you're going to have more and more people coming into their family doctors waving a piece of paper and saying 'What do I do with this

    What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

    For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.


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