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"It's not so easy... it's not possible."

"You can put in all the difficulties, jumps, runs, and any other devilish complexities you like, except octave spans and similar features which do not suit the formation of hands."

"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."

"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."

"It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already."

"I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes."

"A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning."

"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping."

"When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy."
Explore more quotes by Anne Rice

"The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?"

"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."

"You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't."

"I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that."

"Lasher,' she said, 'for the wind which you send that lashes the grasslands, for the wind that lashes the leaves from the trees."

"I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in my love and absorption with the beauty of the world, I sought to learn nothing that could be given back to humanity. I drank of the beauty of the world as a vampire drinks. I was satisfied. I was filled to the brim. But I was dead. And I was changeless."

"It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn't see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars."

"We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast as the universe; which means endless."

"Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reason of heartbreak."
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