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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.”
― Alan Watts

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
― Shannon Hale

“We routinely film our patients' faces through a tiny camera mounted in the bore of the magnet, and my team monitors patients closely. No notes suggested that Juan had cried during the scan.
"Did you cry tears?"
"I couldn't produce tears. But I still cried.”
― Adrian Owen, Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison

“They’re not nuts, friends, they’re simply seeing it all through different eyes. They have imagination, and they know something about being alone and in pain. They’re altering the real world to fit their fantasies. That’s okay.
We all do it. Don’t say you don’t. How many of you have come out of the movie, having seen Bullitt or The French Connection or Vanishing Point or The Last American Hero or Freebie and the Bean, gotten in your car, and just about done a wheelie, sixty-five mph out of the parking lot? Don’t lie to me, gentle reader, we all have weird-looking mannerisms that seem perfectly rational to us, but make onlookers cock an eyebrow and cross to the other side of the street.
I’ve grown very fond of people who can let it out, who can have the strength of compulsion to indulge their special affectations. They seem to me more real than the faceless gray hordes of sidewalk sliders who go from there to here without so much as a hop, skip, or a jump.”
― Harlan Ellison, "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman

“Everything...affects everything”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.”
― Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind: How Should A Christian Think?