“Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it’s a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.”

Todas as minhas cartas de amor não são mais que a realização da minha necessidade de fazer frases.
Diary (16 July, 1930), quoted in Afinado desconcerto (2002), p. 272

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

As quoted in "Return of the time lord" in The Guardian (27 September 2005)

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On himself

Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll

Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
Context: An ancient author tells us somewhere, with the tone of a pedagogue, if you have not done anything worthy of being recorded, at least write something worthy of being read. It is a precept as beautiful as a diamond of the first water cut in England, but it cannot be applied to me, because I have not written either a novel, or the life of an illustrious character. Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life. I have lived without dreaming that I should ever take a fancy to write the history of my life, and, for that very reason, my Memoirs may claim from the reader an interest and a sympathy which they would not have obtained, had I always entertained the design to write them in my old age, and, still more, to publish them.