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A tactical retreat

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.