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All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down.

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It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

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What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

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Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

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Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers ...more

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

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Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effor...more

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The recipe for becoming a good novelist, for example is easy to give but to carry it out presupposes qualities one is accustomed to overlook when one ...more

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Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and ha...more

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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.