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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

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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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Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

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Shut your eyes and see.

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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

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