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" Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible. "
Act
Which
Belief
" Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. "
Unpleasant
Cynicism
Saying
" Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty. "
Guilty
Feel
You
" God forgives those who invent what they need. "
God
Need
Who
" I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion. "
Cannot
Fashion
Will
" If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. "
Talking
Advice
Listen
" If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama. "
End
Man
Beginning
" I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak. "
Who
Communication
Speak
" It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour. "
Mark
Famous
People
" It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it. "
Right
Matter
Confidence
" It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute. "
Good
People
Been
" Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier. "
Lonely
People
Make
" My father was often angry when I was most like him. "
Most
Like
Him
" Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. "
Judge
Point Of View
Nobody
" Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. "
Hope
First
You
" People change and forget to tell each other. "
People
Change
Forget
" Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? "
Injustice
Agree
Since
" Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight. "
Success
Man
Makes
" There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat. "
Earth
Bible
Watch
" They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. "
Writing
Say
Talking
" Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. "
Things
Hope
Start
" Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. "
You
Time
Made
" Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. "
Now
Hell
Justice
" We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them. "
Think
America
Mistakes
" What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. "
Truth
Word
Tricky
" You lose your manners when you are poor. "
Lose
Manners
Poor
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