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Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
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Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.
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Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
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Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.
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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's ''good luck.'' You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.
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M so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
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Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.
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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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