Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit. - Marjorie Benton Cooke - Quotesmemo.com

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Marjorie Benton Cooke

Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.

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until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

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There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.

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The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

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creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.

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I never think over my mistakes. I just live up to them.

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