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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

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Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 12th, 1876

Died: November 22nd, 1916

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