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Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing
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I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!' But it lied.
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Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.
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When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.
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To walk because it is good for you warps the sould, just as it warps the soul for a man to talk for hire or because he think it his duty.
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