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“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
― Mary Oliver

“If you done it, it ain't bragging.”
― Walt Whitman

“Having talent and not putting it on the line is just like not having it and desperately wanting to be recognized”
― Michael Gruber

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“Yes, life sucks, hungry nights and hurtful people, but compared to buried in a box, floating in a universe of nothingness and never? I wouldn't trade.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“I simply knew that I was peculiar and that I was a puzzle to those around me. I was also learning that this weirdness was a part of me that was not to be extinguished.”
― Nick Offerman

“For every Cinderella story telling little girls they are to be beautiful and helpless and rescued by a man, there is a Cinderella story telling little boys they are supposed to be rich and strong and rescuers.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“Most Americans think trains were just for cowboy bandits and hobo murderers, but they're actually pretty cool”
― Trae Crowder, Round Here and Over Yonder: A Front Porch Travel Guide by Two Progressive Hillbillies

“I mean the world is screwed, like we discussed, as evidence for which I present Exhibit A: the entire world.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Service Model

“I am no longer young; and my heart, through weary years of mourning over the dead, is not attuned to mirth.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula