"If you ever go to talk to an editor you don't want to be able to turn down a job because you can't do what is necessary."

-- Mike Royer

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“From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him one little pet. He is my household's guardian soul; He judges, he presides, inspires All matters in his royal realm; Might he be fairy? or a god? When my eyes, to this cat I love Drawn as by a magnet's force, Turn tamely back upon that appeal, And when I look within myself, I notice with astonishment The fire of his opal eyes, Clear beacons glowing, living jewels, Taking my measure, steadily.”
“No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.”
“Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.”
“Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.”
“I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.”
“Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.”

Source : "The Happy Profession". Book by Ellery Sedgwick, ch. 1, 1948.
“Writing something down and processing it, sitting with a text and a story, editing and rewriting new drafts - that entire process helps clarify something for myself. Depending on the person, the act of trying to tell your story helps you understand yourself better, helps you come to terms with something that happened.”

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“The brutal soldiers satisfied their sensual appetites without consulting either the inclination or the duties of their female captives; and a nice question of casuistry was seriously agitated, Whether those tender victims, who had inflexibly refused their consent to the violation which they sustained, had lost, by their misfortune, the glorious crown of virginity. There were other losses indeed of a more substantial kind and more general concern.”

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