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-- Joanna Trollope

#Kindness Quotes #Home Quotes #Appreciate Quotes

“I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.”
“To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.”
“My way is set as in stone, and I don't feel the need to veer off any longer. It has taken many days of searching and fighting, but in the end I have found what I was looking for. I have found my way home.”

Source : Patrick Carman (2011). “Stargazer”, p.276, Scholastic Inc.
“Don't write it right, just write it, and then make it right later.”
“It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God's goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin.”
“The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at all about how large or how small but rather how faithful he shall be.”
“Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing.”
“If you're clear on what you believe, you have a great foundation to go make a market.”

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