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 It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.  I work as my father drank. Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? - Matthew Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. Talking is easy, action difficult. Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job. Men perish by the sword, cowards by disease. The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. - Voltaire The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure. We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. Things past redress are now with me past care. Suit your manner to the man. - Terence Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. What some invent the rest enlarge. When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest, and our attention to something besides ourselves. Till tired, he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. In combat, life is short, nasty and brutish. The issues of national policy which brought him into war are irrelevant to the combat soldier; he is concerned with his literal life chances. Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet. 
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