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"A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out."
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"Always be excellent and you'll rise above the rest."
"Remember, each of us needs to be the best in our field."
"Everybody is standing, but you must stand out.Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough!Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard!Everybody is going, but you must keep going extra miles!Dare to be exceptionally excellent and why not?"
"Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress."
"Become so good they can't ingore you, and you are on the path to success. Become so good they can't stand you, and you are on the path to greatness."
"Excellence is not an event but a habit."
"What does easy or hard have to do with anything? Excellence is your standard."
"As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial."
"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."
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"The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence."
"A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends."
"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."
"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."
"The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven."
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