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“I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.”
― E.B. White

“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.”
― E.B. White

“There must be more to life than having everything!”
― Maurice Sendak, Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”
― Junot Diaz

“Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air