“I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me.”
            "The Little Hours" in Here Lies (1939) 
Context: I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
        
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American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893–1967Related quotes
 
                            
                        
                        
                        “To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.”
 
                            
                        
                        
                        
                                        
                                         alt.fan.pratchett (22 November 1993) http://www.lspace.org/ftp/words/pqf/pqf 
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                        From interview with Subhash K. Jha
                                        
                                        Book 1;  On the necessity of standards 
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