"For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year."

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William Styron

#Ambition Quotes #Writing Quotes #College Quotes

“March is the month of expectation, The things we do not know, The Persons of Prognostication Are coming now. We try to sham becoming firmness, But pompous joy Betrays us, as his first betrothal Betrays a boy.”
“Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.”
“One drop of the Lord's mercy is better than an ocean of the world's comfort.”
“America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.”
“The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.”
“Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.”
“When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.”
“Always believe in yourself and never give up because you don't know what success could be right around the corner.”

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