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Effort Quotes - Page 119

Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.

Mary Balogh (2007). “The Devil's Web”, p.134, Dell

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

Mark Twain, Louis J. Budd (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches, & essays: 1891-1910”

As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.

"'I'm flattered, amazed, deeply moved and sometimes a little dizzy'". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2004.