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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Cyril Connolly

You could admit you were wrong.
You could apologize to your children.
You could slow down.
You could fasten your seat belt.

Chris Korda

"Less"

Accept praise for its worth — politeness. Be brutally frank with yourself. It's safer.

Nelly Bly

Those who build a back door into their life will one day use it as main entrance.

Hans Arndt

So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth; in one generation all the Napoleons and Hitlers and Caesars and Mussolinis and Stalins and all the other tyrants who want power and aggrandizement, and the simple politicians and time-servers who themselves are merely baffled or ignorant or afraid, who have used, or are using, or hope to use, man’s fear and greed for man’s enslavement, will have vanished from the face of it.

William Faulkner

address to the the graduating class at University High School, Oxford, Mississippi on May 28, 1951