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Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Gene Fowler
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What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
Gene Fowler
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Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.
Gene Fowler
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The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
Gene Fowler
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An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.
Gene Fowler
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Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco
Gene Fowler
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A book is never finished; it's abandoned.
Gene Fowler
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He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
Gene Fowler
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Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
Gene Fowler
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News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.
Gene Fowler
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A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.
Gene Fowler
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Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.
Gene Fowler
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I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.
Gene Fowler
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It is no disgrace to rest a bit.
Gene Fowler
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Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief.
Gene Fowler
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Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind
Gene Fowler
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Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
Gene Fowler
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Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in school? Where else can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?
Gene Fowler
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Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.
Gene Fowler
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Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
Gene Fowler
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News is history shot on the wing.
Gene Fowler
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If they haven't heard it before it's original.
Gene Fowler