"It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading into one's own bad prose again, and one more time, and then once again, with the utmost concentration and taste, looking for opportunities to mine deeper."

-- Stewart O'Nan

#Determination Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Dull Quotes

“I'm interested in the way that terror is almost a psychosomatic state. You may have suffered a small injury for a few seconds, but the rest of the year you're constantly on the alert, your injury is constantly with you - and I mean this on a city-wide scale.”
“If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.”

Source : Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.95, Vintage
“Your life's course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.”

Source : "Dream the possible dream" Sheryl Sandberg, bluesky.chicagotribune.com. May 3, 2014.
“I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.”
“We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.”
“There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.”
“We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own.”
“Writing only leads to more writing.”

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