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Gene Fowler [1890-1960] American

Rank: 102
Journalist

Gene Fowler was an American journalist, author and dramatist.

Age, Men, Respect, Success

Quote	Tags	Rank
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.		101
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.		102
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.	Age, Respect	103
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.		104
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.		105
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.	Success	106
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.	Men	107
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.		108
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.		109
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.		110
Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.		111
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.		112
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.		113
It is easier to believe than to doubt.		114
I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.		115
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.		116
If they haven't heard it before it's original.		117

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