Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

—Robert Quillen

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About Robert Quillen

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Verni Robert Quillen (March 25, 1887 – December 9, 1948) was an American journalist and humorist who for more than a quarter century was "one of the leading purveyors of village nostalgia" from his home in Fountain Inn, South Carolina. In 2012, his office and library was listed on the...

More quotations from Robert Quillen

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

—Robert Quillen

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

—Robert Quillen

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

—Robert Quillen

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More quotations tagged with “effort”

He who limps is still walking.

—Stanislaw J. Lec

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Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

—Japanese proverb

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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

—Charles Simic

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