Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity the clichTs that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. The conclusion is obvious you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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