| Quotes |
Topic |
| Courage | Courage is grace under pressure. |
| Cowardice | Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. |
| Cowards | Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. |
| Defeat | But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. |
| Inflation | The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity. Both bring a permanent ruin. |
| Life | The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over. |
| Listening | I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. |
| Literature | All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn." |
| Literature | It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. |
| Morality | So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. |
| Recreation | I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. |
| Simplicity | My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. |
| War | In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. |
| Writer | A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. |
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