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    “Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
    ― Ira Glass
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    William Wordsworth
    “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
    ― William Wordsworth
    tags: on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart
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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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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
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    “Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
    ― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
    tags: improbability, life
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
    “Dare to love yourself
    as if you were a rainbow
    with gold at both ends.”
    ― Author-Poet Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
    tags: angel-poems, classic-books, classic-quotes, creative-vision, famous-quotes, gold, grace, haiku, haikus, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspiring-authors, inspiring-words, joy, love, national-poetry-month, personal-growth, poem-in-your-pocket-day, poetry, positive-motivation, psychotherapy, rainbow, rainbows, self-esteem, self-love, self-motivation, self-respect, spirituality
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    Oprah Winfrey
    “The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey
    tags: moving-on
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    Dayna S. Rubin
    “This is the second Old Master I have encountered that has the signatures of another artist forged over it. A painting that has been created by another artist entirely. It's like they played mix and match.”
    ― Dayna Rubin, Code of Siman: All is not Lost
    tags: abramovich, art, chelsea-fc, davinci, hermitage, holocaust-literature, nasa, suspense-action, the-national-gallery, van-gogh, vermeer
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    Dayna S. Rubin
    “She had to get used to her new name, The Drummer. Twelfth, and last in line, but on a good note, she had the most money, and more importantly, she was alive.”
    ― Dayna Rubin, The Capital Club
    tags: action-adventure, chasers, mentalist, new-york-city, slithies, surveillance-technology, suspense-thriller
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    Dayna S. Rubin
    “Take it all, all of it!" Greg cried out. "These things here...I've been making them better, fixing them. It doesn't matter...they don't matter. I've been here before." He paused to try to collect himself. "It's my past, my present...these things--" He lifted a hand out to the objects around him. "These things are me." Now whispering, "Can't you see me?”
    ― Dayna Rubin, Running Parallel
    tags: action-adventure, antiques, chicago, christian-louboutin-shoes, corporate-espionage, cubs, cyber-action-team, cybercrime, eco-friendly, fbi, greg, harley, hermes, jamaica, kitty, mystery, pea-pod, porsche, recycling, suspense-romance, tattoos, trump-towers, vintage-cars, weddings, wrigleyville, zamantha
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    Dayna S. Rubin
    “Okay, so we know that someone at your place of work hacked into this laptop. That's what we know, that's all we know; let's not jump to conclusions...yet."
    "Unless...it's backward...”
    ― Dayna Rubin, A Vetted Asset
    tags: cass, clowns, corporate-espionage, cybercrime, dandelions, ezra, fbi, frogs, mac, mel, paris, promis-software, russia, san-francisco, sonoma, spencer, suspense-action, the-paris-club, wine, wine-country
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    Elizabeth George
    “There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.”
    ― Elizabeth George, Missing Joseph
    tags: life-questions
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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Stephen King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
    tags: life
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