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#1

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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#2

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

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#3

“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

tags: attention, compassion, happiness, happy-life, inspirational, kindness, life, love, meaning-of-life, meditation, money, oneness, peace, perspective, philosophy, positive-attitude, positive-living, purpose, purpose-in-life, purpose-of-life, purposeful-living, respect, revelation, self-awareness, self-discovery, spirit, spirituality, wisdom

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#4

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer

tags: catholicism, christian-living, christianity, gift, god, inspirational, philosophy, spirituality

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#5

“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
― Lady Gaga

tags: love, romance, work

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#6

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#7

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#8

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#9

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
― Confucius, Confucius: The Analects

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#10

“Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

tags: faith, fate, fear

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#11

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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#12

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#13

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

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#14

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

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#15

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing

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#16

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

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#17

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#18

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

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#19

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

tags: college, semicolons, writing

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#20

“Tears are words that need to be written.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: inspirational, sadness, writing

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#21

“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect.”
― George R.R. Martin

tags: architect, craft, gardener, writers, writers-on-writing, writing, writing-craft, writing-process

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#22

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
― Cyril Connolly

tags: faithfulness, popularity, populism, principles, standards, writing

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#23

“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#24

“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing

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#25

“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: crayon, quip, writing

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#26

“When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.”
― Stephen King

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#27

“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”
― Sidney Sheldon

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#28

“If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of the genre is a trap. It's easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and forget what you're supposed to be doing: telling a good story. Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

tags: fantasy, fantasy-books, inspirational, writing

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#29

“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: censorship, freedom, writers-block, writing

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#30

“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

tags: authors, childhood, humor, southern-authors, southern-writers, writing

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