Patience Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”

— Brenda Ueland

Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

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— George Orwell

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— Tasha Golden

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— Ray Bradbury

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— Nathan Nixon

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— David McCullough

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