The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously

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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

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Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

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Shut your eyes and see.

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Absence, the highest form of presence.

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But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.

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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

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