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    Michael P. Naughton
    “The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story.”
    ― Michael P. Naughton
    tags: michael-p-naughton, to-kill-a-mocking-bird, writing
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    Michael P. Naughton
    “You don't have to reinvent the wheel... just steal the hubcaps.”
    ― Michael P. Naughton
    tags: business, entrepreneurship, movie-business, writing
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    Michael P. Naughton
    “Be the competition you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Michael P. Naughton, Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse
    tags: attitude, business, competition
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    Michael P. Naughton
    “Things don't happen for a reason, we make reasons out of things that happen.”
    ― Michael P. Naughton
    tags: circumstances, fate, luck, reason
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    Michael P. Naughton
    “History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.”
    ― Michael P. Naughton, Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse
    tags: classical-music, composers, music
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    Michael P. Naughton
    “History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.”
    ― Michael P. Naughton
    tags: composers, technological-progress, technology
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    Elmore Leonard
    “There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees; and there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living, whose reason for being might be geographical but whose growth is based on industry, jobs. Detroit has its natural attractions: lakes all over the place, an abundance of trees and four distinct seasons for those who like variety in their weather, everything but hurricanes and earth-quakes. But it’s never been the kind of city people visit and fall in love with because of its charm or think, gee, wouldn’t this be a nice place to live.”
    ― Elmore Leonard
    tags: beauty, cities, detroit, industry, jobs, michigan, nature, weather, working
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    Michael P. Naughton
    “There's nothing quite like the sound of chainsaws over morning coffee.”
    ― Michael P. Naughton
    tags: los-angeles-lifestyle, noise-pollution
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    Michael P. Naughton
    “Your reciept is your library card."
    -- On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores.”
    ― Michael P. Naughton, Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse
    tags: bookstores, business-quotes, competition
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Michael P. Naughton
    “Poetry is not for profit. Poetry is for Posterity.”
    ― Michael P. Naughton
    tags: poetry, reading, writing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Michael P. Naughton
    “Freedom of Speech has become Freedom of Stupidity on the internet. Some ignominious users should not be given a voice to comment at all.”
    ― Michael P. Naughton, Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse
    tags: criticism, critics, internet-etiquette, news
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    William Penn
    “Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.”
    ― William Penn
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    William Penn
    “Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
    ― William Penn
    tags: justice
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    Michael P. Naughton
    “I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.”
    ― Michael P. Naughton
    tags: childhood, comedy, growing-up, home, household
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    Zig Ziglar
    “Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.”
    ― Zig Ziglar
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    Elmore Leonard
    “Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing

    1. Never open a book with weather.
    2. Avoid prologues.
    3. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.
    4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said”…he admonished gravely.
    5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
    6. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."
    7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
    8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
    9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things.
    10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.

    My most important rule is one that sums up the 10.

    If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
    ― Elmore Leonard
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    “They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.”
    ― Clint Eastwood
    tags: happiness, heaven-made, lightning, marriage, married-life, matrimony, quarrel, thunder
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    “I tried being reasonable, but I didn't like it.”
    ― Clint Eastwood
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    “There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.”
    ― Clint Eastwood, Wild Open Spaces: Why We Love Westerns
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    “Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?”
    ― Clint Eastwood
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  • #25
    Jason Fried
    “Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy”
    ― Jason Fried, Rework
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    Michael P. Naughton
    “When everyone is famous, no one will be famous.”
    ― Michael P. Naughton
    tags: fame, reality-tv, superficiality
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    Michael P. Naughton
    “Comment sections on the internet are like gang graffiti, abusive words sprayed like gibberish and it's ugly to look at.”
    ― Michael P. Naughton, Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse
    tags: abuse, language, opinions-of-others, words-to-live-by
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    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
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    Jack Kerouac
    “The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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    Jack Kerouac
    “The only truth is music.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
    tags: music, truth
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