"In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are."

Ambition, America, Race, Writer

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"In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are."

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"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."

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"Set goals to create a clear sense of purpose and direction."

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"Increase must become your natural desire."

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"Whenever God wants to intervene in the affairs of the earth, he intervenes through light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom."

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"All I am saying is that you should begin to see greatness as something you cannot do without. Begin to see greatness as something that you cannot afford not to have."

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"Discipline is needed in our pursuit."

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"A dream is the reality of a future that exists in a person's imagination."

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"You can touch the moon if you really want to do it."

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"A job should only be a stepping stone to being your own boss."

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"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."

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"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."

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"A good deed never goes unpunished."

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"Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith."

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"The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions."

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"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

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"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."

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"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."

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"As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days."

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"Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil."

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"The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible."

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