"...the vital point to remember is that the swine who just sent your pearl of a story back with nothing but a coffee-stain and a printed rejection slip can be wrong. You cannot take it for granted that he is wrong, but you have an all-important margin of hope that might be enough to keep you going."

-- Brian Stableford

#Coffee Quotes #Writing Quotes #Rejection Quotes

“I still get butterflies when England are playing.”
“Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.”
“I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense passion, an ecstatic love affair, with as much turmoil, frustration, exasperation and need as a forbidden liaison.”
“Technology is only an enabler, which can help achieve the intention of the person who is using it.”

Source : "How to save the life of a baby" by Jane Chen, www.cnn.com. September 18, 2013.
“You shouldn't go to college unless God has definitely called you to go.”
“It seems absolutely wrong that people should be able to profit in this cynical way from an event that is designed to highlight the need for action on poverty in Africa, and for which so many artists and others are donating their valuable time for nothing [on people selling Live8 concert tickets on eBay]”
“We have so much sex in our media that's disassociated from emotions.”
“Donald Trump unveiled his immigration policy and now he's getting a lot of flak. His policy would have prevented his own grandfather from coming to America. That explains his new campaign slogan: 'Vote Trump to prevent another Trump.'”

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