If you’re going to
If you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones… After all, there are better ways to starve to death. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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If you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones… After all, there are better ways to starve to death. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair. Eugene Ionesco
There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you. Ernest Hemingway
Yes, O Great One, I shall do as you command. Then when we come back empty-pawed, you’ll admit I was right. – Squirrelflight to Brambleclaw Erin Hunter
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse) Eric S. Raymond
People like me, LB, the truly great ones … we are always alone. Eoin Colfer
Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves. Elizabeth Wordsworth
If one’s intellectual equipment was not great, one’s spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one’s very best could only seem very lightweight in comparison with the effort involved. But perhaps that was not important. The mysterious power that commanded men appeared to him to ask of them only obedience and the maximum of … Read more
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief. Elbert Hubbard
How many great ones may remember’d be, Which in their days most famously did flourish, Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see, But as things wip’d out with a sponge do perish, Because the living cared not to cherish No gentle wits, through pride or covetize, Which might their names forever memorize! … Read more