Ngaio Marsh Quotes

#1. her book. Ngaio Marsh. Myrna was re-reading the classics.

Louise Penny

#2. No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells ...

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#3. I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.

Erykah Badu

#4. There are strange hells within the minds war made ...

Ivor Gurney

#5. It was good. It was like something inordinately beautiful and out of this world. Like I'd found an actual planet that I didn't know had been there all along. Planet Heroin. The place where there was no pain.

Cheryl Strayed

#6. I had tried so hard to please that I never realized no one was watching.

Mark Nepo

#7. Expectation is the springboard of achievement.

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#8. You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.

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#9. Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long ... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

#10. Above all things
read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

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#11. There are people to whom one need not show off. It's a great comfort sometimes.

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#12. As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.

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#13. One should have the courage of one's loneliness.

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#14. You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most essential factor is to love your neighbor. And to love you.

Leo Buscaglia

#15. Most things don't work like they are supposed to work.

Phil Crosby

#16. Do something good for yourself today. You matter.

Virginia Madsen

#17. The language of science - and especially of a science of man - is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.

Thomas Szasz

#18. It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

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#19. We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.

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#20. If you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.

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#21. Custom makes monsters of us all.

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#22. Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.

Ngaio Marsh

#23. Don't let your image, don't let your size, hold you back. If I had let my hips or my jiggly thighs hold me back or the fact that I've got these big heavy breasts, then I would not be where I am today.

Ashley Graham

#24. If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there seemed no particular hurry at the time.

Alexander Kotov

#25. You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.

Ngaio Marsh

#26. No art should be fashionable ...

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