"It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked."

-- Junot Diaz

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“Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than the rest of the world; but I can't help it if I'm pleasanter. It's constitutional.”

Source : Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2015). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.115, Sheba Blake Publishing
“Smiling just to see the smile upon your face. These are the moments I thank God that I'm alive.”

Source : Song: I Could Not Ask For More
“Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.”
“The first two chapters of any first draft generally need to be cut.”
“Then on! then on! where duty leads,My course be onward still.”

Source : George Crabbe, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1839). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”
“My wife comes from a foodie family so I've been indoctrinated into that. I had sweetbreads the other night, and I have to say, not my favorite thing in the world You're eating a gland.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.”

Source : "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2012.
“The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.”

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