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Quote by Isak Dinesen
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. – Isak Dinesen

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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. – Isak Dinesen

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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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I dont feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat. – Hank Aaron

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Its a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people. – Mark Harmon

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My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that theres a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define. – Lee Krasner

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