"Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do."

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Source : Kingsley Amis (1992). “Lucky Jim”, Penguin Classics

Kingsley Amis

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“As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.”
“I do believe we should push each other to write better songs and make better music. We do ourselves a disservice if we sit back and float along the river instead of trying to paddle and guide ourselves to a more creative place.”
“We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.”
“The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest - in the mature years.”

Source : Mary Ellen Snodgrass (1992). “Late Achievers: Famous People who Succeeded Late in Life”, Libraries Unltd Incorporated
“There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.”
“Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.”
“I'm kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen.”
“I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.”

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