“Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!”
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“Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.”
“But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
“In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind.”
“There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science.”
“The human spirit, driven by an invincible force, will never cease to ask: What is beyond?”
“There is nothing to answer: there are spaces, times or magnitudes without limits.”
“If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you.”
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”
“Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
“A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.”
“You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.”
“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.”
“The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings.”