Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
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Natalie Goldberg
Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on it, because it’s not guaranteed and it’s not permanent and it’s not sufficient. So work hard, fall in love with...
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Veronica Roth
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Herman Melville
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
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Winston S. Churchill
When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others
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Robert Greene
More Quotes By Logan Pearsall Smith
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
One late winter afternoon in Oxford Street, amid the noise of vehicles and voices that filled that dusky thoroughfare, as I was borne onward with the crowd past the great electric-lighted shops, a holy Indifference filled my thoughts. Illusion had faded from me; I was...
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmaresif there seemed any danger of their coming true!
