All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax. – Alfred Kazin, Think, February 1963
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. – Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson (www.samueljohnson.com/
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. – Homer
Ive always been too hard on myself to behave like Ive arrived or even to enjoy whatever success Ive had. Ive always envisioned myself higher than where I was and I still do. With each success I think, Thats nice but Im supposed to go there! – Nicole Scherzinger