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Robert Stone: One is improvising...

Robert Stone: One is improvising...

One is improvising when one writes, and you pick up in the same way a musician starts to improvise and detect the...

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Charles Buxton: Experience shows that...

Charles Buxton: Experience shows that...

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Source: In The...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the evitable.

Source: In The Amazon of...

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Beatrix Potter: Thank goodness I...

Beatrix Potter: Thank goodness I...

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the...

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Francois Rabelais: I am going...

Francois Rabelais: I am going...

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

Source:...

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R S Surtees: The only infallible...

R S Surtees: The only infallible...

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is...

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Elias Canetti: Someone who always...

Elias Canetti: Someone who always...

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Source:...

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Margaret Walker: You is born...

Margaret Walker: You is born...

You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if...

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Robert E Lee: Whiskey -- I...

Robert E Lee: Whiskey -- I...

Whiskey -- I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it

Source:...

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Chuck Yeager: You don't concentrate...

Chuck Yeager: You don't concentrate...

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from...

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Colin Powell: Don't let adverse...

Colin Powell: Don't let adverse...

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

Source: Colin Powell's...

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John Paul Jones: I have not...

John Paul Jones: I have not...

I have not yet begun to fight.

Source: Retort when informed his ship was sinking...

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T E Lawrence: The literature of...

T E Lawrence: The literature of...

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

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T E Lawrence: To have news...

T E Lawrence: To have news...

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

Source: Letter, 1 April...

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Miyamoto Musashi: You win battles...

Miyamoto Musashi: You win battles...

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not...

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Elizabeth Bowen: One can live...

Elizabeth Bowen: One can live...

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Source: The Heat of the...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Experience isn't interesting...

Elizabeth Bowen: Experience isn't interesting...

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is...

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Annie Dillard: Crystals grew inside...

Annie Dillard: Crystals grew inside...

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and...

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Charles Buxton: Experience shows that...

Charles Buxton: Experience shows that...

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: How many inner...

Natalie Clifford Barney: How many inner...

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

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