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There are many yesterdays. With any luck, many tomorrows. But there's only one today. Don't fuck it up.

Always treat everyone with respect. You never know who is secretly a psychopath.

Look for the clutter in your writing and prune it ruthlessly. Be grateful for everything you can throw away. Reexamine each sentence you put on paper. Is every word doing new work? Can any thought be expressed with more economy? Is anything pompous or pretentious or faddish? Are you hanging on to something useless just because you think it’s beautiful? Simplify, simplify.

Being a writer is determined more by writing than by having written.

What I have always found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

The trick is to succumb to enough pressure that you do not drive your peers away, but not so much that you end up in a situation in which you are dead or otherwise uncomfortable. This is a difficult trick, and most people never master it, and end up dead or uncomfortable at least once during their lives.

How much easier it is to be wise for another than for ourselves.

In order to become strong tomorrow, stand up and fight today.

Too much, advice and suggestions may dig you into the state of confusion, and that can lead you towards negative and harmful directions. The best initial is to keep in your mind the benefits and demands of the majority than the personal, in that way your decision will fulfil the justice and fairness.