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#1

“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

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#2

“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: favourite-quote, inspirational

1776 likes

#3

“Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

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#4

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

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#5

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing

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#6

“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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#7

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#8

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

tags: on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart

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#9

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
― John Steinbeck

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#10

“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."

[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
― John Green

tags: alone, creative-process, eye-contact, introverts, profession, story, storytelling, writing

1256 likes

#11

“I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.”
― William Golding

tags: nature, optimist, pessimist

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#12

“Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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#13

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: perseverance, progress, thoughtful

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#14

“Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: action, goals, intention, movement, success

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#15

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: action, service

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#16

“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: ability, action, gratitude, happiness, inspirational, life, motivational, moving-forward, problems, success

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