"No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation."

-- Horace

#Art Quotes #Men Quotes #Excellence Quotes

“Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I always go all-out with my costumes.”
“Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that the difficulty of the form is that one must create an entire world in five to 30 pages, as opposed to 300. There is very little room for fat - you must be economical. And you must begin as close to the end as you possibly can.”
“None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army”
“I've always been attracted to the characters that I didn't know anything about. If you do anything in life with passion and love, then it's worth trying.”
“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”

Source : Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.277, Vintage
“The songs I had are withered Or vanished clean. Yet there are bright tracks Where I have been.”

Source : 1922 'The Songs I Had'.
“Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.”
“How is it having more control if there are young people stifled the opportunities that we had?”

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