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Quote by Gustave Flaubert
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic lo

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. – Gustave Flaubert

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The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. – Gustave Flaubert

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If you can laugh together, you can work together. – Robert Orben

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If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but thats not the way to produce good work. – J. K. Rowling

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he cant think of anything else to do. – W. H. Auden

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I dont pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. – Theodore Roosevelt

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