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Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
Gene Fowler
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
Gene Fowler
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
Gene Fowler
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one’s own tooth.
Gene Fowler
Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.
Gene Fowler
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.
Gene Fowler
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
Gene Fowler
Don’t be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.
Gene Fowler
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.
Gene Fowler
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Gene Fowler
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
Gene Fowler
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it’s bottled.
Gene Fowler
If they haven’t heard it before it’s original.
Gene Fowler
It is no disgrace to rest a bit.
Gene Fowler
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
Gene Fowler
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind
Gene Fowler
News is history shot on the wing.
Gene Fowler
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief.
Gene Fowler
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
Gene Fowler
Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco
Gene Fowler
An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he’d have someone to look up to.
Gene Fowler
A book is never finished; it’s abandoned.
Gene Fowler
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Gene Fowler
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.
Gene Fowler
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert – and then make it brief.
Gene Fowler