YEVGRAF: Happy men don’t volunteer. They wait their turn, and thank God if their age or work delays it.
Robert Bolt (1924-1995) English dramatist
Doctor Zhivago, Part 1, film (1965)
(Source)
On army recruitment. This line is not in the 1957 Boris Pasternak novel.
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Don’t get discouraged because there’s a lot of mechanical work to writing. There is, and you can’t get out of it. I rewrote the first part of A Farewell to Arms at least fifty times. You’ve got to work it over. The first draft of anything is shit.
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
