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"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."
"Ambition is greed without makeup."
"Don't just raise the bar. Raise the roof."
"Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object " we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering."
"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."
"Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically."
Explore more quotes by Alexander Pope
"The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on."
"What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate'er we lose?And trust me, dear, good humour can prevail,When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
"Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach."
"Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing."
"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude."
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