"I've always claimed that success in writing - provided of course one had what it takes to make a writer - is like success in marriage, largely a question of good sportsmanship, of keeping on keeping on, of giving one's best and trying, everlastingly trying to make that best, better."

-- Emilie Loring

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“He did not need a long life for us to measure. It was, rather, we who needed his life to be longer.”
“The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.”
“Climbing is a great effort, but the extraordinary pleasure.”
“A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.”
“It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off just to feel a breeze. It's the kind of kiss that makes you realize oxygen is overrated.”
“My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.”
“The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.”
“In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master.”

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