I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.
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William Saroyan
Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
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Sophocles
Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.
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H. L. Mencken
The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Simone Weil
More Quotes By H. L. Mencken
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.
It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish.
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.
