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Funny Quotes on Writing

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none. - Jules Renard

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I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

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Funny Famous Quote

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. -Aristotle

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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela

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Socrates Quotes

Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, providing the madness is given as a divine gift. -Socrates

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If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Henry Ford

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T.S. Elliot Poetry Quote

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. - T.S. Elliot September 26, [...]

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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin

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