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 Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable. - Kit Reed  I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. To help all created things, that is the measure of our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope. Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it. An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won. Urgent necessity prompts many to do things. Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer. This free-will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher. How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy. Language is an inventory of human experience. Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman. No one is happy all his life long. Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable. There are no atheists in the foxholes. When something bad happens to me, I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. 
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