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    Tanith Lee
    “Though we come and go, and pass into the shadows, where we leave behind us stories told — on paper, on the wings of butterflies, on the wind, on the hearts of others — there we are remembered, there we work magic and great change — passing on the fire like a torch — forever and forever. Till the sky falls, and all things are flawless and need no words at all.”
    ― Tanith Lee
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    Mark Twain
    “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: greatness
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Stewart Stafford
    “Success is the bridge between insanity and credibility.”
    ― Stewart Stafford, The Vorbing
    tags: success-quotes
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    Stewart Stafford
    “Don’t listen to advice. Give yourself the freedom to make your own errors, it’s the only way you’ll learn.”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: advice, learning, mistakes-we-make
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
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    Stewart Stafford
    “The glorious freedom of writing is a beautiful thing that must never be stifled by censorship.”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: censorship-freedom-books
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    Stewart Stafford
    “You don't get great art by playing it safe.”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: art
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    Stewart Stafford
    “The glorious freedom of creativity must never be stifled by censorship.”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: creativity-freedom
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    Stewart Stafford
    “Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: philosophy, philosophy-of-life-mind, writing, writing-life, writing-process
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Stewart Stafford
    “People that are scared of the dark have great imaginations and are my kind of people. Those who see nothing in the darkness are boring.”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: imagination, phobias
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    Stewart Stafford
    “Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: fantasy, fantasy-books, fantasy-fiction, realism, reality
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    Stewart Stafford
    “You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator?”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: conformity, creativity, imitate, imitation, imitations, innovation, innovation-quotes
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    Stewart Stafford
    “Rejection puts you out of your comfort zone which is usually when you're at your best.”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: comfort-zone, rejection, rejection-letters
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    Stewart Stafford
    “The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout.”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: books-quotes, brain-training, fitness-quotes, mental-health, mind, mind-power, writing-process, writing-process-creative-process
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    Stewart Stafford
    “When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: comprehend, comprehension, condescension, knowledge, knowledge-of-people, philosophy-of-life, understand, understanding, understanding-oneself-and-others, understanding-others, understanding-quotes
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    Stewart Stafford
    “If you don't make a choice, life makes it for you and then you're stuck with what it decides. Take control of your destiny so that doesn't happen”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: choice-quotes, choices-and-consequences, decision-making, decision-quotes, destiny-decides-better, destiny-quotes, life-lessons
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    Stewart Stafford
    “People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others, they won't win.”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: atrocities, compassion, crises, crises-solution, crises-solutions
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    Stewart Stafford
    “Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.”
    ― Stewart Stafford, The Vorbing
    tags: comfort, dreaming, dreams, rest, sleep
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    Stewart Stafford
    “All vampires are brothers in the brotherhood of night!”
    ― Stewart Stafford, The Vorbing
    tags: night, nighttime, vampire-series, vampires
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    Stewart Stafford
    “Arguing is the Olympics of talking”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: argue, arguing, argument, argumentative, arguments, olympian, olympic-games, olympics, talking-quotes
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    Stewart Stafford
    “There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: creation, imagination-quotes, imagine, man, mankind, nature, nature-s-beauty
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    Stewart Stafford
    “Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy.”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: creating, creative-process, creativity, wealth-and-virtues, wealth-creation, wealth-quotes
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    Stewart Stafford
    “Science Fiction is a safe, fertile arena in which to rehearse the potential scientific facts of tomorrow”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: sci-fi, science, science-and-change, science-fiction, scientific, scientific-discovery, scientific-method, scifi
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    Stewart Stafford
    “It's okay to write a cliché in a first draft; it sets a marker that you can get far, far away from in the rewrites.”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: clichés, first-drafts, originality, rewrites, rewriting, writing, writing-advice, writing-advice-process, writing-process
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    Stewart Stafford
    “The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: democracy, democracy-freedom, freedom-freedom-quotes, governance, politician-quotations, politicians, politicians-quotes, politics, tyranny, tyranny-quotes
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    Stewart Stafford
    “The quickest way to run out of time is to think you have enough of it,”
    ― Stewart Stafford
    tags: complacency, time, time-management, time-quotes, wasting-time, wasting-time-quotes
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