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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

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“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

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“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

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“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

tags: writing

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“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep鈥攊t can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm T贸ib铆n

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“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

tags: loquacity, remaining-silent, silence

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“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

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“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

tags: education, educational, inspirational, inspiring, learning, mentoring

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#5

“There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

tags: life

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“Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.”
― Louise Erdrich

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#6

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: fate, nightmare, struggle

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“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

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“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos鈥� to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
― John Cheever

tags: books, fiction, inspirational, on-fiction, writing

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“One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.”
― Jose Rizal

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#8

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

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“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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“Honestly, if you were any slower, you鈥檇 be going backward.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: draco-malfoy, stupidity

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#9

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: franz-kafka

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#10

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

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#10

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: happiness, pride

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“I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
― Patricia Cornwell

tags: inspirational

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#12

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

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#13

“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.”
― John Wesley Powell

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“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

tags: facts, truth

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#14

“The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.”
― Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

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“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor

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#15

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall

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#15

“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
― Alice Munro

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