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"It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating."
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"Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do. But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds."
"If you continue to hit your head against the wall, don't be surprised if your head hurts."
"I think people give up, because it's the easy option, but my goodness; why would giving up be easy? Your living your life chasing anything to fill the void of what came about when you let go of everything that mattered? I'd rather fight like mad, for everything that will ever matter, because giving in to anything that doesn't will never cure the dream."
"Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing."
"There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on."
"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."
"Sometimes the further away the target, the less you have to try to get there."
"Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering."
"Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself."
"He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man."
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