"I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things."

-- Jack Vance

#Years Quotes #Half Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.”
“Do not seek the answers. Let the answers find you.”
“I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.”
“I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . . I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom”

Source : Richard Wright (1997). “Richard Wright Reader”
“You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.”
“It is hard to stay focused with so much swirling around me. God is distracting. He never stops talking, and I can never stop listening. There is a reason we sleep.”
“Education is too important to be left solely to educators.”

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