"I blundered into writing."

-- Ralph Ellison

#Writing Quotes

“Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.”

Source : John Masefield (1941). “Dead Ned and Live and Kicking Ned”
“Endure the present, and watch for better things.”
“No matter what does, or doesn't, happen for me in the music industry, getting to play the Opry as a kid was always be a highlight of mine.”
“I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.”
“I've been on the phone, I think, 20 out of 24 hours the last three days.”
“Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.”
“The curse is an incredible set of blue balls.”
“Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.”

Source : "Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics". Book by George F. Simmons, 1992.

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