For a long time now, I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

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"Courage is grace under pressure."

- Ernest Hemingway

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"The world breaks everyone and afterward some are strong at the broken places."

- Ernest Hemingway

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"As a writer, you should not judge. You should understand."

- Ernest Hemingway

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"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

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"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

- Ernest Hemingway

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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

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