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Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished… — Len Wein
I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart… — Kanye West
I have certain signatures, certain cutting principles. It could be a raw-edged seam; it could be leaving the lining of sheepskin exposed so it's not… — Vivienne Westwood
If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally,… — Lucinda Williams
The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life… — Robert Anton Wilson
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back. — Virginia Woolf
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school.… — Brian K. Vaughan
Poems are never finished - just abandoned — Paul Valery
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. — David Mitchell
But I must go on," said the Lady Amalthea, "for it is never finished. Even when I wake, I cannot tell what is real, and… — Peter S. Beagle
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will… — Ernest Hemingway
They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative;… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals… — George Bernard Shaw
The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start. — John Bingham
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you. — David Foster Wallace
Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do.… — Dalai Lama
This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not… — Martin Luther
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . .… — John F. Kennedy
We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it… — Richard Bach
I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it’s not finished yet. — Richard Bach
Maybe I'd never see him again... maybe he'd gone for good... swallowed up, body and soul, in the kind of stories you hear about... Ah,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness… — William Shakespeare
Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy… — Joseph Heller
And when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they… — Mark Haddon

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