Occupation: Novelist Birth: February 2, 1905 Death: March 6, 1982
Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which me….
The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for t….
Under fascism, citizens retain the responsibilities of owning property, without freedom to act and without any of the advantages of ownership. Under ….
Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work dete….
Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life..
Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires - if ….
Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as h….
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build..
If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty..
He never felt lonliness except when he was happy..
Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and earnings of one's neighbo….
All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions….
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?.
Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think a charact….
There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and ….
She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of….
Parties are intended to be celebrations, and celebrations should be only for those who have something to celebrate..
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind..
The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acqui….
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence..
The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racis….