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• These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Inspiration, Hands, Ideas

  "The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects". Book by Giorgio Vasari, Volume 2. p. 28, 1900.

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• I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they had fun. They were real people. They formed the culture of American literature. Hemingway admired Tolstoy, Tolstoy admired Pushkin, and Mailer admired Hemingway. It all flows down. The greats are all connected. One day I'm gonna write a book myself. The first chapter will be about what a rough deal my momma got. She believed in you guys and your society.

  Mike Tyson

  Suicide, Fun, Real

  "Boxing: Tyson's complicated world". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 1, 2002.

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• Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!

  David Copperfield

  Inspirational, Winning, Race

  David Copperfield “The Works of Charles Dickens”

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• I love playing basketball because you could be having a rough day in your life, and while you're on the court it gives you a clear mind. I'm not worried about anything. I'm there just playing freely and I go out there all and I have fun.

  Derrick Rose

  Basketball, Fun, Giving

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• Nothing does more to lubricate the rough spots than a good dose of encouragement.

  Tony Dungy

  Encouragement, Doe, Moral

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.177, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.

  John Tenniel

  Friday, Morning, Block

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• Loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough

  Tim McGraw

  Break Up, Breakup, Men

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• Regret is an uneven hand,
  a rough palm at the cheek — tender
  and calloused.

  Lorna Dee Cervantes

  Regret, Hands, Palms

  Lorna Dee Cervantes (2013). “Sueno”, p.3, Wings Press

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• Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight.

  Evander Holyfield

  Heart, Fighting, Garden

  FaceBook post by Evander Holyfield from Nov 15, 2015

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• It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .

  Charles Dickens

  Get Well, Flower, Recovery

  Charles Dickens (1859). “Dombey and Son”, p.142

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• Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

  Jane Smiley

  Perfect, Goal, Rough Drafts

  Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.220, Anchor

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• January cold and desolate;
  February dripping wet;
  March wind ranges;
  April changes;
  Birds sing in tune
  To flowers of May,
  And sunny June
  Brings longest day;
  In scorched July
  The storm-clouds fly,
  Lightning-torn;
  August bears corn,
  September fruit;
  In rough October
  Earth must disrobe her;
  Stars fall and shoot
  In keen November;
  And night is long
  And cold is strong
  In bleak December.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Stars, Spring

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Rossetti: Poems”, p.128, Everyman's Library

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• I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of fire; and after speaking to no one, stretch myself over the world, over roofs and landscapes, with a passionate desire to hunt the rats in my dreams.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Dream, Sex

  Pablo Neruda, “Cat's Dream”

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• Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Two, Groups

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• Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family eve though you've had a rough day.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Spiritual, Sweet, Talking

  "What We Nurture". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. May 9, 2013.

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• Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

  Michael Cunningham

  Book, Writing, Secret

  "Found in Translation". www.nytimes.com. October 2, 2010.

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• The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Beautiful, Distance

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.33, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget,
  Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it.

  Jeru the Damaja

  Real, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Come Clean, Album: The Sun Rises in the East

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• Ghostface, catch the blast of a hype verse,
  My glock bursts, leave in a hearse, I did worse.
  I come rough, tough like an elephant tusk,
  Ya head rush, fly like Egyptian musk.

  Ghostface Killah

  Rap, Elephants, Hype

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• ...Cops just surrounding me with pistols everywhere.
  They put me in the backseat of their car handcuffed,
  Pushed out them chests like they're big rough and tough.
  A cop come and said 'You'll never sell your guns now.'
  I said 'It doesn't matter, you'll sell them anyhow.
  You take the guns from me, you sell them for a fee;
  Anyway you put it, they'll get in the city!'

  KRS-One

  Rap, Gun, Cities

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• Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.

  Robert Rhodes James

  Justice, Politics, Habit

  Robert Rhodes James (1986). “Anthony Eden”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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• These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk midgets.

  Craig Ferguson

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

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• Everybody goes through rough things in their lives, us included. The best advice we can give is to never give up, and always believe in yourself because when you do that, anything is possible.

  Ray Toro

  Giving Up, Believe, Advice

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• In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.

  Annie Proulx

  House, Insightful, Story Writers

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• Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even drawn them on the walls. It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Wall, House

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.36, North Atlantic Books

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