17 Quotes by Gene Fowler
- I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
- Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.
- They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
- Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
- The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
- Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
- Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
- Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
- What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
- Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
- Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.
- Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
- It is easier to believe than to doubt.
- I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.
- He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
- Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
- If they haven't heard it before it's original.
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