Colette
"Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.(Casual Chance, 1964)"
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"Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.(Casual Chance, 1964)"
"تضع كل ما يخطر ببالك فتكون كاتباً. أما المؤلف فهو من يستطيع أن يحكم على قيمة ما يكتبه بنفسه، بلا شفقة، ويدمر معظمه."
Colette
"look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you..."
"تأمل طويلاً ما يسرك، وأطل التأمل أكثر فيما يؤلمك."
Colette
"The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not."
Colette
"As for an authentic villain the real thing the absolute the artist one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow."
Colette
"Friendship which is of its nature a delicate thing fastidious slow of growth is easily checked will hesitate demur recoil where love good old blustering love bowls ahead and blunders through every obstacle."
Colette
"It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change."
Colette
"It is only in pain that a woman is capable of rising above mediocrity. Her resistance to pain is infinite; one can use and abuse it without any fear that she will die, as long as some childish physical cowardice or some religious hope keeps her from the suicide that offers her a way out."
Colette
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