"A lot of my students have been quite notable. Notable in both the personal sense - people who have changed my life - and notable in that many have gone on to enormous success in their writing careers. Whether or not I had a lot to do with those success stories, I'm very proud and happy for my former students getting on the map."

-- Rob Roberge

#Writing Quotes #Careers Quotes #People Quotes

“A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.”
“Yeah, I can dig that... SUCKAAAAAAAAAA!”
“Why are things as they are and not otherwise?”
“The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.”

Source : Speech on Christmas in 1793. Quoted in "Who said Gaddafi had to go?" by Hugh Roberts, London Review of Books, Volume 33 No. 22, pp. 8-18, November 17, 2011.
“I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.”
“Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.”
“Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends”
“Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.”

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