"The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest."

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Source : Steven Brust (2009). “Five Hundred Years After”, p.525, Macmillan

Steven Brust

#Struggle Quotes #Mean Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“Recording an album and doing it live are like two different animals. There are some people that are great singers live, horrible in the studio.”
“If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.”
“Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money.”

Source : Acres of Diamonds, delivered over 5000 times at various times and places from 1900-1925
“Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.”

Source : B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.116, Hackett Publishing
“Hungry people have especially clear minds.”

Source : "Do we still care about sweatshops?" by Douglas Haddow, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2010.
“I do find that people are incredibly naive about what it is to be a writer. Like you would pay an incredible amount of money for an MFA program and still not have the slightest idea of how one goes about becoming a writer. So, I'm always flabbergasted when people say, "Oh, I was invited to do a reading, but I'm not going to read because I don't have a book.".”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded.”
“The thing for me, and I can only really judge this by what I respond to myself as an audience member, I really only respond to a movie if I'm interested in the people who are in it. It's really that simple. If I'm not, then it's all noise.”

Source : Source: www.empireonline.com

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