“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.”
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There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
