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Writing is its own reward.

— Henry Miller

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  3. No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming op…
  4. The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will gi…
  5. More obscene than anything is inertia.
  6. The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
  7. In this age, which believes that there is a short-cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way, in t…
  8. The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

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Topics in this quote

  • art
  • happiness
  • writing
  • purpose
  • motivation

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