
“Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.”
“Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.”
“I act like someone in a bomb shelter trying to raise everyone’s spirits.”
Source: The Princess Diarist
Preface
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)
Context: The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
“If you try to please everyone you’ll please no one.”