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“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

tags: creative-process, failure, motivational, persistence, writing

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“We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

tags: acknowledgement, honor, virtue

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“But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

tags: fate

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“We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

tags: society

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“You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify”
― Stephen King, From a Buick 8

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