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Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Zane Grey
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Zane Grey
Age: 67 †
Born: 1872
Born: January 31
Died: 1939
Died: October 23
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Baseball Player
Dentist
Film Producer
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Screenwriter
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These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.
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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.
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Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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