"Each truth that a writer acquires is..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.
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“Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.”
“I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?”
“A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.”
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“If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.”
“Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
“The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.”
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“Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.”
“We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.”
“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”