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When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

~Avi Arad

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Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Apart Catch Crowd Despair Here Hint Hoping Listening Little Lives Makes Malice Most Spend Standing Story Them Think Tiny Watching Writers

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I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: About Again Between Crap Day Despair End End Of The Day Feel Good Make Maybe More Morning New Next Next Morning Outline Pretty Pretty Good Question Research Rethink See Some Start Then Try Whole Written I See I Feel

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Love and despair go hand in hand.

~Barry Hannah

Topics: Despair Go Hand Love

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Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

~Ben Okri

Topics: Always Beautiful Beautiful Things Because Best Despair Destroyed Growing Much Perish Secret See Them Things Too Too Much You

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Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

~Benjamin Banneker

Topics: Appears Courage Despair Difficulties Easy Lose Make Neglect Never Nor Presumption Should Sight Us Which

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Despair is the conclusion of fools.

~Benjamin Disraeli

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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

~Bernard Berenson

Topics: Always Boast Cry Despair Except Hope Young

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The upside of a downward spiral into despair and defeat in young adulthood is that pretty early on, I was forced to face not only the foolish things I had done but also the stark realization that there was likely no end to what I was capable of doing.

~Beth Moore

Topics: Adulthood Also Capable Defeat Despair Doing Done Downward Early End Face Foolish Forced Had Likely Only Pretty Realization Spiral Stark Things Upside Young

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Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

~Blaise Pascal

Topics: Approach Before Despair God Humble Jesus Ourselves Pride Whom Without

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