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"I have not been a success, and probably never will be."
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"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
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"Success is subjective. Your dream bank balance could be someone else's nightmare."
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"You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them."
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"Sometimes the difference between success and failure is simply the degree to which you crave one over the other."
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"As a character I am dead, as a writer I am not."
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"This year my goal will be to learn new vocabulary in English and to read as much as possible books."
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"You don't need notes... you either do it ... or you either you don't do it."
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"This age is interested in success, not suffering . . . Our Lord was ridiculed, insulted, persecuted, and eventually killed. In the face of opposition, He went about “doing good."
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"Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas."
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"Action is the universal language of success."
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"The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men."
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"I have not been a success, and probably never will be."
Success
"But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality."
Creativity
"It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments."
Art
"Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen."
Age
"I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write."
Advice
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
Man
"But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer."
Failure
"I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts."
Personal
"Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe."
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