
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Happiness
Response to a letter from an unemployed professional musician (5 April 1933), p. 115
The editors precede this passage thus, "Early in 1933, Einstein received a letter from a professional musician who presumably lived in Munich. The musician was evidently troubled and despondent, and out of a job, yet at the same time, he must have been something of a kindred spirit. His letter is lost, all that survives being Einstein's reply....Note the careful anonymity of the first sentence — the recipient would be safer that way:" Albert Einstein: The Human Side concludes with this passage, followed by the original passages in German.
Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Happiness
TRICK 'R TREAT DIRECTOR MICHAEL DOUGHERTY ON THE FILM’S RISE TO CULT CLASSIC STATUS http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/17/trick-r-treat-director-michael-dougherty-on-the-films-rise-to-cult-classic-status?page=2 (October 17, 2013)
“One of those creatures wrote you once, ‘do not call up any that you can not put down’.”
often phrased as "Do not call up that which you cannot put down."
Fiction
Source: "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", written 1927, first published in Weird Tales, July 1941
Variant: You can make more friends in two months by being interested in them, than in two years by making them interested in you.
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), p. 52 (in 1998 edition)
“There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.”
On the relentlessly brutal tone of the works of screenwriter Cormac McCarthy
New York Times interview (2013)