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“Writing makes you a writer,” he’d told me. “If you get up every morning and write, then you’re a writer. Publishing doesn’t make you a writer. That’s just commerce.”
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― My Salinger Year: NOW A MAJOR FILM
“Through the whole epoch of her prosperity, through the long Olympiads of her decay, through centuries after her fall, Athens looked back on the day of Marathon as the brightest of her national existence.”
― The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo
― The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo
“A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.”
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
“he asked who, and what manner of men, the Athenians were. And when he had been told, he called for his bow; and, having taken it, and placed an arrow on the string, he let the arrow fly towards heaven; and as he shot it into the air, he said, 'O Supreme God! grant me that I may avenge myself on the Athenians.' And when he had said this, he appointed one of his servants to say to him every day as he sat at meat, 'Sire, remember the Athenians.”
― The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo
― The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo
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