Quote #59

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

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  2. It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
  3. If a writer : knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows:. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due …
  4. You're beautiful, like a May fly.
  5. I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and …
  6. You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. It's sort of what we have instead of God.
  7. If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
  8. A bottle of wine was good company.

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