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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. – Samuel Butler

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An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better. – Samuel Butler

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Ideas
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing. – Samuel Butler

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Humor
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. – Samuel Butler

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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. – Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

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Writing

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. – John Cheever

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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. – Samuel Johnson

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The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. Thats the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. Thats worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth. – Ang Lee

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