"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."

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"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."

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"We are capable of greatness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Ability, Act, Advice, Profit

"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"You have divine abilities for a great mission."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Ability, Effort, Limit, Performance

"If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"We are capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."

Charlotte Whitton, Canadian Politician

Ability, Difference

"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."

Truth

"I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know."

Trust

"Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."

Life

"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."

Music

"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."

Wrong

"In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries."

Time

"Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man."

Art

"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts."

Humanity

"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."

Geography

"I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible."

Worth