"I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers."

Career, Editors, Failure, Creativity

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"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."

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"So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more."

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"I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy."

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"And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series."

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"When choosing a profession, a person will have good incentive for personal development by choosing such a profession that represents a personal challenge."

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"Till Human voices wake us, and we drown."

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"Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment."

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"There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything."

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"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

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"Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative."

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"Though you forget the way to the Temple,There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger."

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"You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind."

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"He is quiet and small, he is blackFrom his ears to the tip of his tail;He can creep through the tiniest crackHe can walk on the narrowest rail.He can pick any card from a pack,He is equally cunning with dice;He is always deceiving you into believingThat he's only hunting for mice.He can play any trick with a corkOr a spoon and a bit of fish-paste;If you look for a knife or a forkAnd you think it is merely misplaced -You have seen it one moment, and then it is gawn!But you'll find it next week lying out on the lawn.And we all say: OH!Well I never!Was there everA Cat so cleverAs Magical Mr. Mistoffelees!"

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"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words."

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"If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."

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