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    Brendan Behan
    “I'm a drinker with writing problems.”
    ― Brendan Behan
    tags: drinking, writing
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    “There are no extraordinary men...just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.”
    ― Admiral William Bull Frederick Halsey Jr.
    tags: good-character
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    Blaise Pascal
    “I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

    (Letter 16, 1657)”
    ― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters
    tags: brevity, conciseness, correspondence, humor, letters, pithy, wit, writing
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: faith, humility, prayer, surrender
    971 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”
    ― Issac Asimov
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    Ludwig van Beethoven
    “Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”
    ― Ludwig van Beethoven
    tags: inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
    727 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
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    Anne Rice
    “I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.”
    ― Anne Rice
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: breath, existence
    9774 likes

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    Walt Disney Company
    “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ”
    ― Walt Disney
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    Isabel Allende
    “Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.”
    ― Isabel Allende
    tags: writing
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
    ― robert heinlein
    tags: writing
    379 likes



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