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"I'm either going to be a writer or a bum."
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"Don't waste your life on small dreams. Give yourself permission to dream big."

"We all do have a vision in life and we all wish to achieve something in life. We all ought to note that vision is there for everyone but, achievement is there for someone!"

"Always strive to get to the top in life because its usually crowded at the bottom."

"When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up."

"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."

"If the grass is greener on the other side, start watering your own."

"The shrewd hunt foxes, the strong hunt lions, but the mighty hunt elephants."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."

"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."

"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."

"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."

"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."

"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
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