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“If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.”
― John Lancaster Spalding

“If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.”
― George Gordon Byron

“The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“You can, of course, write to inspire others… but most importantly, you must write to inspire yourself.”
― Jessica Swan

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Love is ordinary, love is dull, love is the natural condition of the human heart, love is the message we carry branded on us from the womb but only the best of us will dare to read it and, even when we dare to read it to people who can never understand, it is still there in us like the rings in a tree or the ridges in a shell, part of us, marking the years and the drought and the growth, even if nobody sees it until the tree is cut down.”
― Andrew Nicoll