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 When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.  One man with a dream, at pleasure, Shall go forth and conquer a crown, And three with a new song's measure, Can trample an empire down. There is just one life for each of us: our own. If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise? Perhaps I am stronger than I think. There is today an extraordinary interest with the data of modern experience per se. Our absorption in our contemporary historical state is very high right now. It's not altogether unlike a similar situation in seventeenth century Holland, where wealthy merchants wanted their portraits done with all their blemishes included. It is the height of egotism, in a sense, to think even one's blemishes are of significance. So today Americans seem to want their writers to reveal all their weaknesses, their meannesses, to celebrate their very confusions. And they want it in the most direct possible way - they want it served up neat, as it were, without the filtering and generalizing power of fiction. When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always. Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, is hope. Slang is language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands - and goes to work. This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary. No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action. Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest. I was sick, and ye visited me. - Bible They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part. Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness. If you speak the truth have a foot in the stirrup. The past is a funeral gone by. 
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