It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.
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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.William Faulkner
A hack writer who would not have been considered a fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of the old proven sure-fire literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.
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The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours -- all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.
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I decline to accept the end of man.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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