"[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement."

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Mary Roberts Rinehart

#Normal Quotes #Want Quotes #Discouragement Quotes

“There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.”
“Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.”
“O Mary Mother of Mercy and Refuge of Sinners! We beseech thee to look with pitying eyes on poor heretics and schismatics. Do thou, who art the Seat of Wisdom, enlighten the minds wretchedly enfolded in the darkness of ignorance and sin, that they may clearly recognize the Holy, Catholic, Roman Church to be the only true Church of Jesus Christ, outside of which neither sanctity nor salvation can be found.”
“Where there is love, there is God also.”
“Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.”
“If you boss you think you can your instructor around, you won't learn.”
“I soon realized that it is not enough for a master simply to analyse variations scrupulously just like an accountant. He must learn to work out which particular moves he should consider and then examine just as many variations as necessary - no more and no less.”
“Send me to jail in 48 hours if I am corrupt.”

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