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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

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Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

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Boredom slays more of existence than war.

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The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be inter...more

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If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a ...more

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It is not uncommon for fighters’ camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions of boredom others do not begin to contemplate. Fig...more