Do whatever you have to do as quickly as you can, so you can do whatever you WANT to do, for as long as you can.
Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug.
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.
I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.
Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.
People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.
Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank.
The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry, "Here we are. " You expend effort and energy thinking hard. Then, after you have given up, they come sauntering in with their hands in their pockets. If the effort had not been made to open the door, however, who knows when they could have come.
Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,-disentangle them who may.
The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.