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“Dare I ask what your junior editor thought?” He shrugs. “She said it was fine.” I stare at his expression, trying to gauge if I should smile at that. “Fine as in ‘fine wine’ or ‘fine dining’? Or fine like lukewarm fries at McDonald’s when
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“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― Twelfth Night
― Twelfth Night
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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