"As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be people who haven't heard of some of them."

-- Donald Barthelme

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“It's nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.”
“So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I be a good king? Would I be quick witted and generous of spirit and full of that boundless energy? Or would I be clumsy and stupid and dulled by my own prejudices? I try to be a good man, since I am alive at all, and hope that that teaches me what I would need to know if I was ever faced with a higher challenge.”
“Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.”

Source : "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, chapter XII, 1795-1822.
“Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle.”
“The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.”
“The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic health, and work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug themselves to death.”
“Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting.”

Source : "MLMs in BNI". "BNI Podcast" with Priscilla Rice, www.bnipodcast.com. July 27, 2011.
“Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.”

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