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I write not to explain the world but to understand it.
"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."
"The worst enemy of truth is not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic."
"Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides."
"I am not a political writer. I am a writer who writes about politics."
"I don't write to be loved, I write to be understood."
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Patriotism is not a choice, but a duty.
Freedom is not a gift, but a right that must be fought for.
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.