Famous quote by Irwin Shaw

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"Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own"

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This quote is written / told by Irwin Shaw between February 27, 1913 and May 16, 1984. He/she was a famous Novelist from USA. The author also have 37 other quotes.

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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

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"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work"

"Buildings should serve people, not the other way around"

"Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people"

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

"First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people"

"The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy"

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man"

"Ambition is not a vice of little people"