I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

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We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale...

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale...

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of...

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of...

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to...

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to...

All is ephemeral, - fame and the famous as well.

All is ephemeral, - fame and the famous as well.

Mickey: Never say famous last words, because they could be.

Mickey: Never say famous last words, because they could be.

The will to truth! That will which is yet to seduce us into many a...

The will to truth! That will which is yet to seduce us into many a...

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it...

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it...

To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues,...

To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues,...

The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected...

The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected...

Gloriously false, a maid famous for all time.

Gloriously false, a maid famous for all time.

FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Done to a turn on the iron, behold Him who to...

FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Done to a turn on the iron, behold Him who to...

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

It is the inherent characteristic of the flames to move upward and illuminate the nearby...

It is the inherent characteristic of the flames to move upward and illuminate the nearby...

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric...

At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric...