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"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."

– C.S. Lewis

 

"The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life."

– Robert Penn Warren

 

"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if

you earn no money."

– Jules Renard

 

"If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can

only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to

collect their money."

– Andrei Tarkovsky

 

"The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions."

– John Updike

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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

 

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."

 

 

"You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth."

 

"To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour."

 

All Winston Churchill. The man is a master of words

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Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that any one can best serve the happiness of others by the absolute sacrifice of his own, yet so long as the world is in that imperfect state, I fully acknowledge that the readiness to make such a sacrifice is the highest virtue which can be found in man. I will add, that in this condition the world, paradoxical as the assertion may be, the conscious ability to do without happiness gives the best prospect of realising, such happiness as is attainable. For nothing except that consciousness can raise a person above the chances of life, by making him feel that, let fate and fortune do their worst, they have not power to subdue him: which, once felt, frees him from excess of anxiety concerning the evils of life, and enables him, like many a Stoic in the worst times of the Roman Empire, to cultivate in tranquillity the sources of satisfaction accessible to him, without concerning himself about the uncertainty of their duration, any more than about their inevitable end.

 

J.S. Mills

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