"As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that."

-- Virginia Woolf

#Writing Quotes #Pleasure Quotes #Certain Quotes

“My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.”
“What a hell of a league this is. Ah hit .387, .408, and .395 the last three years and Ah ain't won nothin' yet!”
“Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.”
“I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse, a free trip to Chantilly, marriage, a large unsolicited loan, ten tips for a ten-horse race, two second-hand cars, a fight, and the copyright to a dying jockey's life story.”
“It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.”
“Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.”
“I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.”
“I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.”

Source : Daniel O'Connell (1872). “Life and Speeches of Daniel O'Connell ....: Including Many Speeches Not in Other Collections”, p.187

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