"This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address."

Work, Writing, Persistence, Opportunity, Patience

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"This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address."

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"The world system is employment."

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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Do not be weary to make money."

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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

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"A territory is only possessed for a moment in time."

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"The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else."

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"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."

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"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."

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"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

Living, Mind

"Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."

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"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."

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"Now, see, that's why everybody wants Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy.' Dovey's phone buzzed, and she laughed, ignoring it. 'The trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho."

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"He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million things you can't have will fit in a human hand."

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