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Quote by Reggie Jackson

“When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.”

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Reggie Jackson, born on May 18, 1946, is an American professional baseball player. He is known for his powerful hitting ability and unique personality in Major League Baseball. more

“The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.”

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Book:Works

Source: Works

“Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.”

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Author:Jessamyn West

“Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.”

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Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.”

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Author:Richard Curtis

“Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out.”

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Author:John Gardner

“Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.”

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Author:John Osborne

“Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.”

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Author:Robert A. Burton

“The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.”

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Author:Felix Adler

“Be yourself, no matter what they say.”

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Author:Sting

“Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall you look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.”

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Author:June Singer

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