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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

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If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

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Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

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In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: September 13th, 1894

Died: August 14th, 1984

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