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  1. Hermann Hesse _ Siddhartha

    ... you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rocks, love stronger than force.
    book-quotepatiencestrengthwater

  2. Thomas Pynchon _ The Crying of Lot 49

    As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.
    book-quotedeathwinepersistence

  3. Ray Bradbury _ Fahrenheit 451

    But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and the doing.
    book-quotepersistence

  4. Tom Shippey _ The Road to Middle-Earth: How

    While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.
    book-quotetolkienpersistence

  5. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Lord of the Rings

    I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back.
    book-quotefatepersistence

  6. Raymond Chandler _ The Big Sleep

    I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is money. I am so money greedy that for twenty-five bucks a day and expenses, mostly gasoline and whiskey, I do my thinking myself, what there is of it; I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and of Eddie Mars and his pals. I dodge bullets and eat saps, and say thank you very much, if you have any more trouble, I hope you'll think of me, I'll just leave one of my cards in case anything comes up.
    book-quotedeterminationpersistencegrit

  7. Neal Stephenson _ Reamde

    Most of Csongor's time in T'Rain had been spent blundering about in a state of hapless newbie confusion. Only his long experience as a system administrator, struggling with Byzantine software installations, had prevented hum from plummeting into despair and simply giving up. Not that any of the sysadmin's knowledge and skills were applicable here. The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against the problem for long enough he'd be able to break through in the end.
    book-quotecomputerspersistencesysadmins

  8. John Steinbeck _ Travels with Charley: In

    When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.
    book-quotewritingmotivationalfailure

  9. Joyce Meyer _ Any Minute

    One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.
    book-quotemistakespersistence

  10. Cormac McCarthy _ The Road

    Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
    book-quoteinspirationalhopefire

  11. Alexandre Dumas _ The Man in the Iron Mask

    Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.
    book-quotelifesufferingpain

  12. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry _ The Little Prince

    The only things you learn are the things you tame"
    book-quotelearningeducationpersistence
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