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> [“Curb your fretting, tadpole, or the frog of your future will fail to croak.' -Thaddeus”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/curb-your-fretting-tadpole-or-the-frog-of-your-future-will-fail-to/)

[Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/)

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## More by Paul Collins

> [“What you mean to find matters less than what you do find.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/what-you-mean-to-find-matters-less-than-what-you-do-find/)

[Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/)

> [“Curb your fretting, tadpole, or the frog of your future will fail to croak.' -Thaddeus”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/curb-your-fretting-tadpole-or-the-frog-of-your-future-will-fail-to/)

[Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/)

> [“Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/autists-are-the-ultimate-square-pegs-and-the-problem-with-pounding-a/)

[Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/)

> [“…I had a good title already. My book was originally called Loser: A Brief History of Notable Failures. But American publishers don’t like this.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/i-had-a-good-title-already-my-book-was-originally-called-loser-a/)

[Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/)

> [“Generally, when a man is rabidly for one cause, and then is just as rabidly for another cause, it is not because he loves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/generally-when-a-man-is-rabidly-for-one-cause-and-then-is-just-as/)

[Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/)

> [“If a book cover has raised lettering, metallic lettering, or raised metallic lettering, then it is telling the reader: Hello. I am an easy-to-read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/if-a-book-cover-has-raised-lettering-metallic-lettering-or-raised/)

[Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/)

> [“If you grew up in a rural area, you have seen how farmhouses come and go, but the dent left by cellars is permanent.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/if-you-grew-up-in-a-rural-area-you-have-seen-how-farmhouses-come-and/)

[Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/)

> [“I sometimes wonder whether century-old ruins look so beautiful to us beacause they were \*meant\* to ruin in a beautiful way. There was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/i-sometimes-wonder-whether-century-old-ruins-look-so-beautiful-to-us/)

[Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/)

> [“But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/but-above-all-an-author-must-write-passionately-and-edit-passionately/)

[Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/)

> [“It really is an APPALLING thing to think of the people who have no books...It is only by books that most men and women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/it-really-is-an-appalling-thing-to-think-of-the-people-who-have-no/)

[Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/)

> [“Think of it: a disability is usually defined in terms of what is missing. … But autism … is as much about what is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/think-of-it-a-disability-is-usually-defined-in-terms-of-what-is/)

[Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/)

> [“Historically, dust jackets are a new concern for authors; you don't see them much before the 1920s. And dust jacket is a strange name…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/historically-dust-jackets-are-a-new-concern-for-authors-you-don-t-see/)

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> [“A future owned by yellow journalism was not one most reporters wished to contemplate. Some libraries had already barred the "World" and the "Journal"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/a-future-owned-by-yellow-journalism-was-not-one-most-reporters-wished/)

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> [“Leatherbound books are an expensive form of wallpaper, and yet every English nobleman’s home seems to have had them. Their endless sets of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/leatherbound-books-are-an-expensive-form-of-wallpaper-and-yet-every/)

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> [“Put the penis schematic away, he told the coroner.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/put-the-penis-schematic-away-he-told-the-coroner/)

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