"If a writer wrote merely for his..." - Quote by Victor Hugo
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
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“Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.”
“The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.”
“Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.”
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“Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take.”
“I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.”
“Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.”
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“While Frazier was a man of few words / Ali was a world of mouth / but he found his place in history / Now his heart can express him well / Joe Frazier was a silent warrior / whom Ali silently admired / One could not rise without the other”
“Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.”
“The word of man is the most durable of all material.”