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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.  
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. Y...  
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the crit...  
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power ...  
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rule...  
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink t...  
Forgotten is forgiven.  
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for ...  
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.  
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the mo...  
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know the...  
It takes a genius to whine appealingly.  
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.  
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a bli...  
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.  
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like th...  
See that little stream, we could walk to it in two minutes. It took th...  
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.  
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into ...  
Strange is it not? That of the myriads who before us pass'd the Doorof...  
The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and i...  
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two oppos...   Intelligence
The victor belongs to the spoils.  
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.  
There are no second acts in American lives.  
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to s...  
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because y...  
Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the e...