Zane Grey Quotes
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Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.
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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
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I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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I hate birthdays.
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Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
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Don't look back!
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.
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I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
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I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
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I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.