"Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do."

-- Fannie Hurst

#Perseverance Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Book Quotes

“We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.”
“It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.”
“For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”
“The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.”
“The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.”
“There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.”
“If Tim Duncan had Knicks on his jersey, he'd be a god.”
“The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.”

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