"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."

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Source : Russell Baker (2011). “Growing Up”, p.157, RosettaBooks

Russell Baker

#Real Quotes #Work Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Physically you are identical with and inseparable from the cosmic material substance, and socially you are inseparable from the large mass of humanity.”
“I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.”
“The most important thing I think we need to remember is that we're a work in progress. Do not be ashamed or afraid to ask for help. That's what I did. I asked for help.”
“My aversion to them...springs from the perniciousness of that sect to society-I hate Papists, as a man, not as a Protestant. If Papists were only enemies to the religion of other men, I should overlook their errors. As they are foes to liberty, I cannot forgive them.”
“Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.”

Source : William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.106
“The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.”
“The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.”
“Write the book you want to read”

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