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The Most Important Preliminary To The Task Of Arranging One's Life So That One May Live Fully And Comfortably Within One's Daily Budget Of 24 Hours Is The Calm Realization Of The Extreme Difficulty Of The Task, Of The Sacrifices And The Endless Effort Which It Demands.

To Write Is To Make Oneself The Echo Of What Cannot Cease Speaking.

The Second Suggestion Is To Think As Well As To Read. I Know People Who Read And Read, And For All The Good It Does Them They Might Just As Well Cut Bread-and-butter. They Take To Reading As Better Men Take To Drink. They Fly Through The Shires Of Literature On A Motor-car, Their Sole Object Being Motion. They Will Tell You How Many Books They Have Read In A Year. Unless You Give At Least 45 Minutes To Careful, Fatiguing Reflection (it Is An Awful Bore At First) Upon What You Are Reading, Your 90 Minutes Of A Night Are Chiefly Wasted.

Time Is The Explicable Raw Material Of Everything.

Of All The Inhabitants Of The Inferno, None But Lucifer Knows That Hell Is Hell, And The Secret Function Of Purgatory Is To Make Of Heaven An Effective Reality.