Category: writer
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
Albert Camus
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Now if you know what makes one person’s life change, then you know what makes a nation change – because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.
Marianne Williamson
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Don’t you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Aeschylus
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Ambrose Bierce
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie
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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
Marcel Proust
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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Samuel Johnson
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
Ray Bradbury