As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning...
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Paul Rudnick
My get-up-and-go often leaves without me.
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Nanette Mathews
We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work
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Thomas A. Edison
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.
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Benjamin Franklin
In this age of 'whatever, ' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris
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George F. Will
More Quotes By Vauvenargues
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.
