“Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.”

— Ken Follett, book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

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Ken Follett26

British novelist 1949

Tina Connolly American writer

Source: Ironskin (2012), Chapter 13, “The Last Ray of Sunlight” (p. 222)

“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”

John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach

“The purblind majority quite honestly believed that literature was meant to mimic human life, and that it did so.”

James Branch Cabell book The Cream of the Jest

Source: The Cream of the Jest (1917), Ch. 27 : Evolution of a Vestryman
Context: The purblind majority quite honestly believed that literature was meant to mimic human life, and that it did so. And in consequence, their love-affairs, their maxims, their so-called natural ties and instincts, and above all, their wickedness, became just so many bungling plagiarisms from something they had read, in a novel or a Bible or a poem or a newspaper. People progressed from the kindergarten to the cemetery assuming that their emotion at every crisis was what books taught them was the appropriate emotion, and without noticing that it was in reality something quite different. Human life was a distorting tarnished mirror held up to literature: this much at least of Wilde's old paradox — that life mimicked art — was indisputable. Human life, very clumsily, tried to reproduce the printed word.