"Courage is the most important of all..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
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“My mother raised me, and then freed me.”
“To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.”
“I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.”
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