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But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#failure #first #grandfathers #his #i

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#began #chosen #editor #fifteen #had

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. ↗

— Gordie Howe

#athletes #bilingual #english #profanity #professional

I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little. ↗

— John Howe

#become #complete #fairly #i #interesting

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession. ↗

— John Howe

#been #before #books #ever #first

You can feel anything. All is free for you to feel. But I guarantee you that if you allow yourself to feel envy and then to swim in it, that envy will destroy you and the people around you. Envy is unlike anger. Envy is not a right wing nor a left wing, it is not on either end of the balancing beam. Nobody needs it and I can assure you that once you give yourself to it, you will be eaten up. Envy can even eat up nations, casting them up against each other and pull a whole nation down into an internal collapse. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#envy #evil #pure-evil #the-nature-of-envy #warnings

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good? ↗

— Joseph Howe

#before #believe #down #good #i

Seven Ages: first puking and mewling Then very pissed-off with your schooling Then fucks, and then fights Next judging chaps' rights Then sitting in slippers: then drooling. ↗

— Robert Conquest

#limerick #middle-age #old-age #seven-ages-of-man #william-shakespeare

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune. ↗

— Bert Williams

#his #humor #laugh #man #misfortune

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life. ↗

— Merle Shain

#cost #costs #emptiness #fear #find