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#1

“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

tags: despair, insightful, writing

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#2

“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
― William Faulkner

tags: revision, writing

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#3

“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: books, life, writing

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#4

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

(Casual Chance, 1964)”
― Colette

tags: creative-process, editing, self-criticism, writing

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#5

“Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.

"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know."

"Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: usage, word-choice, writing

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#6

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

tags: life, perfectionism, writing

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#7

“Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing

1. Never open a book with weather.
2. Avoid prologues.
3. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.
4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said”…he admonished gravely.
5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
6. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."
7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things.
10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.

My most important rule is one that sums up the 10.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
― Elmore Leonard

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#8

“The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems.
Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.”
― Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

tags: andrea-gibson, bones, grief, the-madness-vase, trauma

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#9

“There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.”
― christopher moore

tags: grief

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#10

“Love is an engraved invitation to grief.”
― Sunshine O'Donnell, Open Me

tags: grief, love

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#11

“The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.”
― James Patterson, Angel

tags: bereavement, grief, loss

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#12

“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: advice-for-daily-living, fear-and-loathing, grief, inspirational, sorrow

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#13

“Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

tags: circumstance, depression, grief, proportion

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#14

“The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.”
― Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

tags: drama, grief, loss, mourning, tragedy, war, world-war-ii

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#15

“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: grief, loss

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#16

“It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.”
― Kristina McMorris, Letters from Home

tags: death, grief, love, mourning, tragedy, war

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#17

“Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be able to stand looking at it. But it's when we're willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.”
― Hubert Selby Jr.

tags: moves-you-to-think

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#18

“I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.”
― Hubert Selby, Jr.

tags: death, motivation

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#19

“Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.”
― Hubert Selby Jr.

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#20

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

tags: logic, love

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#21

“Sure you do. Everyone wants to play. They’re just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what’s stupid? Not trying. So just…try.”
― Victoria Scott, The Collector

tags: play, stupid, try

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#22

“Nothing is more important than creative play through imagination.
Never stop playing, and never stop imagining!”
― Carmela Dutra

tags: children, creative, creativity-quotes, imagination, play, playfulness

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#23

“Play invites participation.”
― Brian Goodwin

tags: participation, play

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#24

“Today's make believe is tomorrow's creativity.”
― K. Lamb

tags: educate, imagination, inspire, play, read-encourange, teach

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#25

“Today, make time to play.”
― Na'ama Yehuda

tags: agelessness, children, imagination, naamayehuda, nature, personal-time, play, playfulness, self-help, weekend-activities

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#26

“Don't ever quit pretending.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

tags: fantasize, fantasy, imaginary, imagine, play, pretend, pretending, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich

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#27

“Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

tags: abandon, cardew, castle, destroy, destroyed, devastated, everybody, everyone, fear, fiction, force, fort, fortress, freya, general, ghost, gothic, gothic-romance, image, inside, king, mask, mysterious, mystery, no-one, nobody, outside, play, power, powerful, present, pretend, queen, romance, ruin, ruins, self-image, strength, strong, stronghold, suspense, weak, weakness, young-adult

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#28

“..there is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages for Singles

tags: love

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#29

“What we dislike in others is often a weakness in our own lives.”
― Gary Chapman, The 5 Love Languages: Singles Edition

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#30

“Many people mess up every new day with what happened yesterday. They insist on bringing into today the failures of yesterday, and in so doing pollute a potentially wonderful day. When bitterness, resentment, and revenge are allowed to live in the human heart, words of affirmation will be impossible to speak. The best thing we can do with past failures is to let them be history.”
― Gary Chapman, The 5 Love Languages: Singles Edition

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