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" No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. "

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" Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. "

" Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. "

" Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. "

" The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence. "

" Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. "

" The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food. "

" When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types. "

" There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. "

" Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. "

" The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post. "

" Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. "

" A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out. "

" A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent. "

" There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. "

" The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven. "

" It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. "

" When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin. "

" Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. "

" Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. "

" For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? "

" We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving. "

" All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. "

" The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. "

" Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. "

" Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. "

" The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. "

" The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. "

" The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. "