"Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you haven't. You have learned how to write that story, or that book, but you haven't learned how to write the next one."

-- Grace Paley

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“Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.”
“We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.”
“The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.”
“Italy is not a country for beginners.”

Source : Tim Parks (2014). “Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company
“The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can transform the possibilities into fact...Man, not the earth, makes civilization.”
“If you don't live in your strengths, you'll die in your weaknesses. Do first and most what you're good at, and bring others along who are good at your weaknesses.”
“Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.”
“And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.”

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