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    Charles Bukowski
    “Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Alain de Botton
    “People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.”
    ― Alain de Botton
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    Alain de Botton
    “A good half of the art of living is resilience.”
    ― Alain de Botton
    tags: life, living, resilience
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
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    Stephen King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing
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    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow
    tags: writing
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Stephen King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
    tags: college, semicolons, writing
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    Jack London
    “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
    ― Jack London
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    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
    tags: cheese, poetry
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: attention, books, humor, mind, wit
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