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“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.”
― Julian Barnes, England, England

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.”
― Issac Asimov