"Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor."

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Fred Saberhagen

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Values aren't buses... They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are.”
“Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.”

Source : Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
“Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.”

Source : "Inside the Monster : Writings on the United States and American Imperialism" by José Martí, translated by Elinor Randall, (p. 27), 1975.
“The public always wants to be told.”

Source : Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.491, Lulu Press, Inc
“There was a pause. I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing left to say. I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your impressiveness to my friends, convincing myself this was possible.”
“We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.”
“I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash...”
“Tom Jones is like igloo-cool.”

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