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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”
I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
. A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.
Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard and to suffer sore, till old age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires. It is hard to live. In pain the babe sucks his first breath, in pain the old man gasps his last, and all his days are full of trouble and sorrow; yet he goes down to the open arms of death, stumbling, falling, with head turned backward, fighting to the last. And death is kind. It is only life and the things of life that hurt. Yet we love life and we hate death. It is very strange.
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
Affluence means influence.
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