"All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose."

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Source : James Agate (1942). “Ego 5: Again More of the Autobiography of James Agate”

James Agate

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Missing Quotes

“In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.”
“Creativity is not being afraid to be different. It takes madness to jump at an idea that no one else believes in.”
“[Robert] Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even "at least not systematic"; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his Complete Poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest.”
“Have good trust in yourself, not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.”
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
“Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Hell is paved with infants skulls.”
“Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use - now that's the hard stuff.”

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