It took me a long time to ...

It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren\'t good or bad, they\'re just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.
It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.
 Kaye Gibbons

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.
 Kaye Gibbons
I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have the time when your brain has nothing to do so it rambles. I fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. I just think it is best to do something right up until you fall asleep.
 Kaye Gibbons
I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.
 Kaye Gibbons
The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and truths that were never spoken...out bubbled all the words he had swallowed when he was alive.
 Kaye Gibbons