Quotes About Persistence

It's a f*** you world. Well, keep it going anyhow, what the hell.

If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.

there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say no.

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

Somebody at one of these places asked me: What do you do? How do you write, create? You don't, I told them. You don't try. That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it's looks, you make a pet out of it.

All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/ empty spaces/ where people should/ be.

There is always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life.

I just let it roll. Like a hot turd down a hill.

I found the best thing I could do was just to type away at my own work and let the dying die as they always have.

I run with the hunted.

If you're going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don't even start.

agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.

magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it

a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

If you persisted long enough, the good luck usually came. Most people couldn't wait on the luck, though, so they quit.

My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.

do it, do it, do it. do it. all the way all the way.

So tired you want to quit, then you get more tired, and forget to quit.

Just living until you die is hard work

I remember your saying: make it or break it. neither happened and it won't.

mainly thinking, well, I'm still alive and have the ability to expel wastes from my body and poems. and as long as that's happening I have the ability to handle betrayal loneliness hangnail clap and the economic reports in the financial section.

please have some cheer: agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.

How much shit does a man have to take just to stay alive?" "Plenty," came the answer, "and more …

Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth means going to the end like you mean it. That way, death itself comes up short when it grabs