
“A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar.”
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“A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar.”
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1920s, Whose Country Is This? (1921)
David Cay Johnston; How The One Percent Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (Jun 23, 2009)
“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
Essay in the anthology The War Poets (1945) edited by Oscar Williams
“A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating”
As quoted in Shoptalk: learning to write with writers (1990), edited by Donald Morison Murray<!-- Cook Publishers -->
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Context: A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating. You're there now doing the thing on paper. You're not killing the goose, you're just producing an egg. So I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working. I have never had the problem of a writing block. I've heard about it. I've felt reluctant to write on some days, for whole weeks, or sometimes even longer. I'd much rather go fishing, for example, or go sharpen pencils, or go swimming, or what not. But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, 'Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.' There's no difference on paper between the two.
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“If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.”
1 Corinthians 3:18 (KJV)
First Epistle to the Corinthians