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“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“«Quanto pesa una lacrima?»
«Secondo: la lacrima di un bambino capriccioso pesa meno del vento, quella di un bambino affamato pesa più di tutta la terra.»”
― Gianni Rodari, Il libro degli errori

“Reality can be entered through the main door or it can be slipped into through a window, which is much more fun.”
― Gianni Rodari, The Grammar of Fantasy: An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories

“I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.”
― Robert Gottlieb

“But I had learned a lesson about the overwhelming need of narcissists to be in the right, and to punish those by whom they feel slighted.”
― Robert Gottlieb, Avid Reader: A Life

“Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate...”
― Anne Carson, Nox

“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

“Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart.

In your writing and your life.”
― Dinty W. Moore, The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life

“Now the world seemed to her to have become so complex that its problems defied solution. There was only a chaos of conflicts of interest; the whole thing filled her with a sense of futility.”
― Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

“You are not too old
and it is not too late
to dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out
its own secret.”
― Rilke

“You’re going to have a hard time in life if you let every little mistake bother you, he said. Life is good, son. Enjoy it.”
― M.O. Walsh, My Sunshine Away

“I am a human being, and thus nothing human is alien to me.”
― Terence. (Terentius)