Top 24 Gene Fowler Quotes
#1. Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco
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#2. 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.
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#3. Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
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#4. What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
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#5. Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
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#8. Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.
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#9. An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.
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#11. Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
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#12. Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.
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#13. They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
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#14. Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
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#15. Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.
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#16. 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?
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#17. He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
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#19. A book is never finished; it's abandoned.
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#20. The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
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#21. Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
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#22. Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
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#23. If they haven't heard it before it's original.
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#24. It is easier to believe than to doubt.
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