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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but becaus...  
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.  
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle wit...  
I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you wa...  
I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole th...  
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century...  
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.  
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabi...  
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoi...  
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America ...  
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.  
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies...  
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. Th...  
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a roo...  
There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.  
They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000...