Rupert Hart-Davis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.
Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
What a splendid head, yet no brain.
I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

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