"When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All the ones who wrote on a matchbook covers. Paper bags. Toilet paper. Who had their writing destroyed by their jailers. Who persisted beyond all odds."

-- Sam Shepard

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“Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.”
“Hard days are the best because that's when champions are made.”
“Every day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines long after wars are over.”
“No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.”
“The best all-around [running] back in the league is Jamaal Charles. He has the ability to hit a homerun from anywhere.”
“He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.”
“I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.”
“The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with Godâ€™s help to do just that.”

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