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Psychological studies have recently shown that adversity can be a more powerful motivator than support. Successful people often remember being told that they could not do what they have, in fact, done brilliantly. Stubbornness drove them. Their parents or teachers have told them they will never make any money, or that they will never get a college degree, or that they will never marry and have children. The urge to prove authority wrong has..
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Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst
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John Berryman, put it, "Something has been said for sobriety, but very little."
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All five of our twentieth-century literature Nobel laureates were alcoholics--Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck.
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John Barleycorn's final words: "I've had more friends in private and more foes in public than any other man in America."
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