"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."

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"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."

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"Ability without honor is useless."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"The size of a fish does not determine its speed."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell."

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"I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story."

Narrative

"The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art."

Art

"The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval."

Fear

"I continued to protect him with my silence."

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"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."

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"I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?"

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"If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life."

Life

"Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home."

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"I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes."

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