It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
- Topic: Adversity, Breakthrough
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.
It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
I drink to make other people more interesting.
If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.
