Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.
Donald HallJoe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy.
Donald HallWhen we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.
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