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    Ernest Hemingway
    “As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: writers, writing-advice
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    S.M. Blooding
    “It's okay to write crap. Just don't try publishing it while it's still crap.”
    ― S.M. Blooding
    tags: writing-advice
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: adventures, being-different, change, courage, determination, empty-spaces, excitement, fear, fear-of-failure, future, happiness, hope, life, never-give-up
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    “Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in garden loaded with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.

    Being different and thinking differently make a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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    “To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in. One success is inherited, and the the next one is earned. While the last one is self-sought, self-served, and happens on its own terms.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: achievement, bee, beekeeper, bees, being-different, business, entrepreneur, free, freedom, hard-work, hardest, hardship, hardwork, inherit, queen-bee, reward, rewarding, self-served, success, success-quotes, successful, suzy-kassem, terms, three-bees, vacation, wisdom, work, working
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    Max McKeown
    “The psychology of individual creativity is about at least three different things. First, creativity is about thinking differently. Second, creativity is about feeling differently. Third, creativity is about focusing, or committing, differently.”
    ― Max McKeown, Innovation Book, The: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results
    tags: being-different, creativity, difference, imagination, innovation, meaning, purpose, thinking-different
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    Edward Abbey
    “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
    ― Edward Abbey
    tags: truth
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    Agatha Christie
    “Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
    "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Peril at End House
    tags: humor, thinking
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    Agatha Christie
    “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
    ― Agatha Christie
    tags: archeology, growing-older, marriage
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    Agatha Christie
    “If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”
    ― Agatha Christie
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    Gertrude Stein
    “One must dare to be happy. ”
    ― Gertrude Stein
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    John Grisham
    “Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
    ― John Grisham, The Rainmaker
    tags: be-yourself, courtroom-drama, crime
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    Bertolt Brecht
    “Art is not a mirror held up to reality
    but a hammer with which to shape it.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
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    Judy Blume
    “Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.”
    ― judy blume
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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    Elizabeth George
    “There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.”
    ― Elizabeth George, Missing Joseph
    tags: life-questions
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    Lorraine Hansberry
    “Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
    ― Lorraine Hansberry
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    Johanna Lindsey
    “Do for yourself, for no one else will.”
    ― Johanna Lindsey, A Heart so Wild
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  • #19
    “The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician.”
    ― Kate Betts, My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: fair, life
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    Marcus Valerius Martialis
    “Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
    ― Marcus Valerius Martialis
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    Henry Fielding
    “I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”
    ― Henry Fielding
    tags: contentment, inner-peace
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    George Carlin
    “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: benediction, evil, goodwill, humor, inspirational, wishes
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    David Walliams
    “All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.”
    ― David Walliams, Gangsta Granny
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  • #25
    “Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.”
    ― Will Cuppy
    tags: animals, apes, humor, humorous, mammals, primates
    286 likes

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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
    23005 likes

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    Sarah Orne Jewett
    “Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.”
    ― Sarah Orne Jewett
    tags: write
    464 likes

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    Phyllis A. Whitney
    “A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.”
    ― Phyllis A. Whitney, Guide to Fiction Writing
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, on-writing, writing
    433 likes

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    Gail Carson Levine
    “In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.”
    ― Gail Carson Levine
    1019 likes

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  • #30
    Julia Donaldson
    “I opened a book and in I strode. Now nobody can find me.”
    ― Julia Donaldson
    992 likes



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