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#1

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.”
― Stephen King

tags: critique, stephen-king, writing

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#2

“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

tags: poetry, prose, writing

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#3

“If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: inspirational, love

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#4

“fortune has no era finer than this moment”
― J. Lavan

tags: poetry-quotes

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#5

“It wouldn’t matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged”
― Kerry E. Wagner, Never Let Go of My Hand

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#6

“One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged”
― Kerry E. Wagner, Never Let Go of My Hand

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#7

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#8

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#10

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
― William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

tags: freedom

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#11

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

tags: past, time

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#12

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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