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Like Scarlett O’Hara, I won’t be broke again.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.

I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it’s not like the end of the world and it’s not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I’m able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

I think there’s something peculiar about me that I haven’t died. It doesn’t make sense but I refuse to die.

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don’t cheat with it.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.