The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere. - S. J. Perelman

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If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't matter if the work doesn't provide that creative spark. You want out.

S. J. Perelman

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

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I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

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The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

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I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.

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If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.

Evening, Feels, Totally, Understand, Wasted, Written

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