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Self-discipline Without Talent Can Often Achieve Astounding Results, Whereas Talent Without Self-discipline Inevitably Dooms Itself To Failure.

Norbert Blei Is A Writer The Way People Used To Be Troubadours And Minstrels, Celebrating What He Has Seen And Heart And Felt In A Deceptively Simple Style Reminiscent Of The Early Sherwood Anderson. . . . Like Anderson, He Is A Lover, And His Affection Invests His Writing With A Singular Charm.

Nobody Can Be So Amusingly Arrogant As A Young Man Who Has Just Discovered An Old Idea And Thinks It Is His Own.

Every Morning I Take Out My Bankbook, Stare At It, Shudder - And Turn Quickly To My Typewriter.

The Acceptance Of Ambiguity Implies More Than The Commonplace Understanding That Some Good Things And Some Bad Things Happen To Us. It Means That We Know That Good And Evil Are Inextricably Intermixed In Human Affairs; That They Contain, And Sometimes Embrace, Their Opposites; That Success May Involve Failure Of A Different Kind, And Failure May Be A Kind Of Triumph.