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“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.”
― Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
― Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
“The thing that makes me happy is that I know that on Mars, two hundred years from now, my books are going to be read. They’ll be up on dead Mars with no atmosphere. And late at night, with a flashlight, some little boy is going to peek under the covers and read The Martian Chronicles on Mars.”
― The Martian Chronicles
― The Martian Chronicles
“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.”
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
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