If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,...
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I have been to lots of partiesand acted perfectly disgracefulbut I never actually collapsedoh Lana Turner we love you get up
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Frank OHara
The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think about it practically, I am glad it's a struggle. I am (as usual) attempting to write a book that's too...
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Shannon Hale
Learn the rules before you break them.
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Steven Taylor Goldsberry
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way
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More Quotes By Jo Walton
There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.
If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.
I'm only fifteen. I'm not sure I ever want to get married. I'm neither messing around while waiting nor looking for some "real thing". What I want is much more complicated. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>I want somebody to talk about books, who would be my friend,...
It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.
If you love books enough, books will love you back.
