Changing the way you dress can make it easier to make deeper changes in the structure of your personality.
College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
You have to know what you want to get it.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
Unfortunately most accidents are preventable. Planes don't fall out of the sky unless something is wrong.
It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.
Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are probably going to have to deal with it, because some wonderful, dazzling successes are going to happen for some of the most awful, angry, undeserving writers you know-people who are, in other words, not you.
We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.