Random Quotes
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.Carl Sandburg
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.Josh Billings
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.James Baldwin
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.Jean Rostand, Journal of a Character, 1931
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.William Hazlitt
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.Sir William Osler
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.Robert Louis Stevenson
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.Raymond Chandler
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.Henry David Thoreau