“All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.”
― One Writer's Beginnings
― One Writer's Beginnings
“What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.”
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“I forget how many thousand eggs go wrong for one codfish that gets hatched. But as Berkeley said long ago, it is idle to censure the creation as wasteful if you believe in a creator who has unlimited stuff to play with.”
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“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
― The Hollow Hills
― The Hollow Hills
“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”
― God's Lonely Man
― God's Lonely Man
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