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#1

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#2

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#3

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#4

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: inspirational, life, work

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#5

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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#6

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: definitions, forgiveness

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#7

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: morality, usefulness

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#8

“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#9

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
― Mark Twain

tags: starting, working

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#10

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: truth, writing, writing-advice

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#11

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: reminding

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#12

“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: inspirational

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#13

“Never confuse movement with action.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: action, progress

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#14

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#15

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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#16

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing

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#17

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
― James Michener

tags: writing

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#18

“I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.”
― Craig Claiborne

tags: on-writing, words, writing

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#19

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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#20

“Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.”
― Norman Mailer

tags: humor, writing

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#21

“First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.”
― Peter Ellis

tags: language, parable, vigilance

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#22

“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to Heaven.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: all-s-well-that-ends-wel

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#23

“But that is another story and shall be told another time.”
― Michael Ende , The Neverending Story

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#24

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

tags: opportunity

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#25

“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.”
― Joseph Addison

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#26

“I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.”
― Yann Martel

tags: working

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