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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
The crown of literature is poetry.
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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