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The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. - Author object (69)

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. - Author object (69)

A leader is a dealer in hope. - Author object (69)

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest. - Author object (69)

There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind - Author object (69)

A picture is worth a thousand words. - Author object (69)

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Author object (69)

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited. - Author object (323)

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read. - Author object (323)

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. - Author object (323)

You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well. - Author object (323)

Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts. - Author object (323)

Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary. - Author object (323)

Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song. - Author object (323)

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. - Author object (323)

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. - Author object (323)

Life itself is a quotation. - Author object (323)

Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much. - Author object (323)

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships. - Author object (323)

Reality is not always probable, or likely. - Author object (323)