"I think, by and large, the way big social change happens is every individual person taking on whatever little piece they can take on."

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Eugene Puryear

#Thinking Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Littles Quotes

“She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.”
“Perhaps that's how I should think of them, Polly thought, the troupe and Miss Snelgrove and Trot. And Sir Godfrey. Not as lost to her, but as removed to this moment in time for safekeeping.”
“My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.”
“To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.”
“I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they were, so that delusion went on for a long time. Maybe it's still going on, only somehow I sucked some people in. It was a long time of writing things that didn't make sense in the real world, and I'm embarrassed about them now in a jocular way.”

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“A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.”
“Everybody has to share something. This is one of the most important laws of the human condition, is the necessity to share. This is the task of the writer - but not only of a writer, of every human being - it is to share something that he or she has.”
“To move forward you have to give back.”

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