"What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every good book from its author, even if he knows from the beginning exactly what he wants to say. A limpid style is invariably the result of hard labour, and the easily flowing connection of sentence with sentence and paragraph with paragraph has always been won by the sweat of the brow."

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G. M. Trevelyan

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Sweat Quotes

“The magic gets lost in translation.”
“The effects of fame on the not-famous people who are close to a celebrity - this is definitely a topic that continues to interest me.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“There must be no bloodshed, no violence unless it is defensive, no coercion! We must do it our way and our way alone! To do otherwise is to betray centuries of hardship and struggle.Above all else Kyfho. Forget Kyfho in your pursuit of victory over the enemy, and you will become the enemy...worse than the enemy because he doesn't know he is capable of anything better.”
“Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.”
“Victoria's got her secrets. Hey, so do I!”
“If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him.”
“Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.”
“Well, I'm stubborn and wrong, but at least I know it.”

Source : Song: Heroes and Thieves, Album: Heroes & Thieves, 2007

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