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Knuckling Down Quote: When I Was A Little Boy, They Called Me A Liar, But Now That I Am Grown Up, They Call Me A Writer.
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Knuckling Down Quote:
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am
grown up, they call me a writer.
-- Isaac Singer
Related:
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I?
If not now, when? -- Rabbi Hillel...
I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.
The waste basket is the writer's best friend. -- Isaac Singe
Quote #388 "What matters to me is the -writing-, the act of manufacturing the novel, because while I am doing it, I am in that world I'm writing about.
It is real to me, completely and utterly. Then, when I'm finished, and have to stop, withdraw from that world -forver-, that destroys me....
Quote #483 "You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right?
Please wait until I am wrong." -- John von Neumann [ on being phoned at 10 a.m.]...
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I?
And if not now, when? -- Rabbi Hillel, 12th Century...
If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I?
If not now, when? -- Rabbi Hillel, in the _Talmud_...
When I grow up I want to be a little boy. -- Joseph Helle
OK, so I'm cured of schizophrenia, but where am I now when I need me?