"Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away……" — Stanley Elkin

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• Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being… — Eric Cantor
• Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away… — Cher
• At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play.… — Thomas Boswell
• All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a… — Eddie Murphy
• I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at… — Will Self
• Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away,… — Richard Bangs
• The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up. You have to cut… — Charles Spurgeon
• Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting… — Amy Alcott
• Another son came along 18 months later, although we waited four years to have the third, because Mitt was still… — Ann Romney
• Oh, God. God, isn't that perfect? He's Dad. He's Dad with a layer of nerd. Solid, steady, chipping away so… — Nora Roberts
• I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the… — Harriet Doerr
• . . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao,… — Laozi

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