"Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like myself, however small, Like myself, or not at all."

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Source : William Allingham (1884). “Blackberries picked off many bushes, by D. Pollex and others, put in a basket [verse, really written] by W. Allingham”

William Allingham

#Writing Quotes #Might Quotes #Originality Quotes

“At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.”

Source : "While Rome Burns". Book by Alexander Woollcott, 1934.
“The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.”
“I think the great power of Bette Davis was she always knew who she was. She had an obligation to herself and her audience. When you think of what she was compelled to do, the power she put on the screen, the fact that she took upon herself a much greater task...”
“All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object”
“I like girls with a good sense of humour. Girls who are a lot of fun to be around.”

Source : "Zac Efron and Corbin Bleu Dish on High School Musical 3: Senior Year". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.
“The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.”
“Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.”
“Control the things you can control .”

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