"I go on working for the same..." - Quote by H L Mencken
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
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“In my day a reporter who took an assignment was wholly on his own until he got back to the office, and even then he was little molested until his copy was turned in at the desk; today he tends to become only a homunculus at the end of a telephone wire, and the reduction of his observations to prose is commonly farmed out to literary castrati who never leave the office, and hence never feel the wind of the world in their faces or see anything with their own eyes.”
“Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.”
“America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously.”
More on Work Ethic
“I prefer my music. I'm more of a one-nighter kind of person than to do a squat-down job for three months or whatever.”
“You've got to believe in yourself, you've got to have a very clear vision, and you've got have the fire in the belly and go out and not be shy with working because it takes a lot of work.”
“Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”
More on Purpose
“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”
“Art to be art must soothe.”
“Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.”