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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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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. – Samuel Butler

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Loss
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. – George Orwell, “Why I Write,” 1947 (Thanks, Jennifer)

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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. – Saul Bellow

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Caress your phrase tenderly: it will end by smiling at you. – Anatole France

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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. – G.K. Chesterton

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