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    Théophile Gautier
    “Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
    ― Théophile Gautier
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Mae West
    “Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: chivalry, men, protection, relationships, women
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    “I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”
    ― Stephanie Lennox, I Don't Remember You
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
    ― C. S. Lewis
    tags: hurt, lewis, misery, sad, truth
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: fighting, hurt, inner-peace, peace, permission, strength, trial
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    Natsuki Takaya
    “Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.”
    ― Natsuki Takaya
    tags: fruits-basket, hurt, save, words, yuki
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    Anne Frank
    “No one has ever become poor by giving.”
    ― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play
    tags: charity, compassion, helping-others, kindness
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    Cathryn Kemp
    “I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat.
    That was until I became one...”
    ― Cathryn Kemp, Painkiller Addict: From Wreckage to Redemption - My True Story
    tags: addict, addiction, addicts, brave, courage, difficult-life, drug-addiction, drugs, heroin, hospital, inspirational, memoir, misery, non-fiction, painkillers, prescriptions, recovery, self-help, survival-story
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    Anthony Kiedis
    “It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.”
    ― Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
    tags: drug-addiction
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    Dina Kucera
    “The decision-making part of the brain of an individual who has been using crystal meth is very interesting. When Carly and Andy were in their apartment, they ran out of drugs. They sold every single thing they had except two things: a couch and a blow torch. They had to make a decision because something had to be sold to buy more drugs. A normal person would automatically think, Sell the blow torch. But Andy and Carly sat on the couch, looking at the couch and looking at the blow torch, and the choice brought intense confusion. The couch? The blow torch? I mean, we may not need the blow torch today, but what about tomorrow? If we sell the couch, we can still sit wherever we want. But the blow torch? A blow torch is a very specific item. If you’re doing a project and you need a blow torch, you can’t substitute something else for it. You would have to have a blow torch, right? In the end, they sold the couch.”
    ― Dina Kucera, Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor
    tags: drug-addiction, drugs
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    Carrie Fisher
    “I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.
    I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.”
    ― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
    tags: alcohol, alcoholism, bipolar, celebrities, celebrity, drinking, drug-abuse, drug-addiction, drug-use, druggie, drugs, drunk, hyper, hypomanic, illness, manic, manic-depressive, medication, mental-health, mental-illness
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    Melissa Anne Peterson
    “Funny how someone can be so beautiful and totally fucked up at the same time.”
    ― Missy Anne, Jimmy James Blood
    tags: drug-abuse, drug-addiction, drugs, jimmy-james-blood, missy-anne
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    Erica Jong
    “All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.”
    ― Erica Jong, The New Writer's Handbook 2007: A Practical Anthology of Best Advice for Your Craft and Career
    tags: creative-process, drafting, psychology, writers-block, writing
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    Hilary Mantel
    “If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to ­music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient.”
    ― Hilary Mantel
    tags: creativity, distraction, inspiration, openness, problem-solving, procrastination, writers-block
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    David Foster Wallace
    “You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Because doing anything results in...it's actually kind of tragic because you sacrifice how gorgeous and perfect it is in your head for what it really is. And there were a couple of years where I really struggled with that.”
    ― David Foster Wallace
    tags: beauty, creativity, fear, idealism, idealists, ideals, inertia, infp, perfection, perfection-and-confusion, perfectionism, perfectionists, writers-block
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    Candace Bushnell
    “Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?”
    ― Candace Bushnell, Summer and the City
    tags: doubt, work, writers-block, writing
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    D.A. Botta
    “I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel yourself.”
    ― D.A. Botta
    tags: writer, writers-block, writing, writist
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