“It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.”

— Thomas Harris , Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

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American author and screenwriter 1940

Dean Koontz book Watchers

Part 1, Chapter 7.5; Nora's comment on her changes since meeting Travis
Watchers (1987)

“Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.”

Aaliyah (1979–2001) American singer, actress and model

From Treye Green's article "Happy 35th Birthday, Aaliyah: 15 Of The Singer's Best Quotes" (15 January 2014) http://www.ibtimes.com/happy-35th-birthday-aaliyah-15-singers-best-quotes-1542245
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“People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.”

Judith Guest Ordinary People

Source: Ordinary People

“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

“It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit…and keep moving forward.”

Randy Pausch book The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture (2008)

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)

Also attributed to Ernest Hemingway and others; the earliest definite occurrence of this yet found in research for Wikiquote is by Maya Angelou, who stated it in Conversations With Maya Angelou (1989) edited by Jeffrey M. Elliot:
I think it's Alexander Pope who says, "Easy writing is damn hard reading," and vice versa, easy reading is damn hard writing
The statement she referred to is most probably:
You write with ease, to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading
Clio's Protest, or the Picture Varnished (written 1771, published 1819) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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