"Time, which alone makes the reputation of..." - Quote by Voltaire
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
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“No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.”
“When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.”
“The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.”
More on Reputation
“All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.”
“The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
“What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.”