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One last word to all you nascent writers out there. Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat. Write with balls, write with eggs. Sure, it’s a harder journey but take it from me, it’s well worth it.
Note to self.
“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.”
― The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition
― The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition
“Doctor, it hurts when I do this. Then don’t do that.”
― The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition
― The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition
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― The Warrior Prophet
― The Warrior Prophet
“When we believe without ground or cause, Proyas, conviction is all we possess, and acts of conviction become our only demonstration. Our beliefs become our God, and we make sacrifices to appease them.”
― The Thousandfold Thought
― The Thousandfold Thought
“You understand little because to learn you must admit you know nothing.”
― The Warrior Prophet
― The Warrior Prophet
Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy"
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