"Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none"

-- Jules Renard

#Success Quotes #People Quotes #Literature Quotes

“It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.”

Source : 'Curiosities of Literature' (9th ed., 1834) 'On Quotation'
“If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.”
“Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.”

Source : Cotton Mather (2009). “Magnalia Christi Americana”, p.59, Applewood Books
“I've been in politics long enough to expect criticism and hostility. But I was unprepared for the hatred I get from Christians. Why do Christians hate so much?.”
“Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.”
“I'm confident that I can steal rounds by getting inside and throwing punches.”
“A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does”
“Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.”

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