"Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent"

-- Donna Tartt

#Challenges Quotes #Way Quotes #Projects Quotes

“I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.”
“I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!”
“Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it.”

Source : "Hadrian the Seventh" by Frederick Rolfe, Penguin Modern Classics edition, Harmondsworth, (p. 343), 1963.
“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
“I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?”
“If you don't feel you're the best, then you shouldn't be doing your job. No one else cares if you don't care about yourself.”
“We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.”
“You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.”

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