I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a … - Don Marquis

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I wanted to be sure that my donation did two things: went directly into the hands of hurricane victims and that it was an amount that could really impact their lives and make a difference.

Don Marquis

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

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Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

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Alice Sebold

I think that if you're somebody who's a control freak, the process would make you crazy, but I'm kind of a process freak, so I'm excited to see what he does with it. I know it's not going to be my book, so just starting with that knowledge frees me from having to get all freaked out about it.

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Charles Handy

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

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Charles Dickens

Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused her to incline to him a little more, or a little less, than she had done at first; whether it rendered her eager to find out more about him, because she sought to establish reason for her distrust, or because she sought to free him from it; was as yet dark to her own heart. But at most times he occupied a great amount of her attention.

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Dr. Dre

I wanted to be sure that my donation did two things: went directly into the hands of hurricane victims and that it was an amount that could really impact their lives and make a difference.

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James Hollis

The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be 'solved,' then no change will occur.

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