Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
タグ: writing, on-writing

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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
タグ: than, mean, big, better
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
タグ: roast, beef, philosophy, only, food
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
タグ: like, struggle, you, death
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
タグ: past, people, business, you
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
タグ: next, tree, man, beautiful
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