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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “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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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Neil Gaiman
    “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Anaïs Nin
    “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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    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    Ray Bradbury
    “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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    Anton Chekhov
    “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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  • #9
    If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
    “If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
    ― Chinua Achebe
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: truth, writing, writing-advice
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    Andrea Gibson
    “I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color,
    but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight.
    I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies
    and they were real close to looking like the sunrise,
    and sometime it takes the most wounded wings
    the most broken things
    to notice how strong the breeze is,
    how precious the flight.”
    ― Andrea Gibson
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: spirituality
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    Andrea Gibson
    “We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.”
    ― Andrea Gibson
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    Andrea Gibson
    “I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.”
    ― Andrea Gibson
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    Andrea Gibson
    “Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.”
    ― Andrea Gibson
    tags: andea-gibson, forests, nothing-more-alive, tree-in-cemetery
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    Andrea Gibson
    “To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.”
    ― Andrea Gibson
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    Andrea Gibson
    “Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.”
    ― Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase
    tags: fertile, fertility, fire, land, nature, volcano
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    Nellie Bly
    “I said I could and I would. And I did.”
    ― Nellie Bly, Ten Days in a Mad-House
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    Jennifer Egan
    “We're the survivors. Not everyone is. But we are.”
    ― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
    tags: inspiration, survivors
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
    Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
    tags: activism
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    Ann Richards
    “After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”
    ― Ann Richards
    tags: dance, dancing, politics, texas, women
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: love-remedy
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    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t
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    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: greatness
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    William Shakespeare
    “If music be the food of love, play on;
    Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
    The appetite may sicken, and so die.
    That strain again! it had a dying fall:
    O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
    That breathes upon a bank of violets,
    Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
    'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
    O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
    That, notwithstanding thy capacity
    Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
    Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
    But falls into abatement and low price,
    Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
    That it alone is high fantastical.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: music, romance, unrequited-love
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