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Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)
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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.
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Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.
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Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It's about not being able to stop at all.
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I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
F. Lee Bailey
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Born:
June 22, 1947
Died:
February 24, 2006
(aged 58)
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