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“I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a chance of being salable in my early 20s, then didn't write much fiction at all because I was in grad school.”
Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com
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“There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.”
Source : O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.2395, ShandonPress
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“Don't wait on approval, validation and likes from others - always give yourself the highest of approval ratings and work from there. Hold your head up and be fabulous no matter what!”
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“Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.”
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“All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.”
Source : Joaquin Miller (1917). “The Building of the City Beautiful”
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“I think people still have a need for miracles. Science keeps telling them there's no life on Mars, there's no God, nothing's trailing Hale-Bopp, those people are just dead in their Nikes. But they want to believe in something.”
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“There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.”
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“It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.”