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    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll
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    Stephen King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
    tags: life
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    Lao Tzu
    “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: apothegm, beauty, truth
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    Quentin R. Bufogle
    “Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour my ass. Writing is the friend who doesn't return my phone calls; the itch I'm unable to scratch; a dinner invitation from a cannibal; elevator music for a narcoleptic. Writing is the hope of lifting all boats by pissing in the ocean. Writing isn't something that makes me happy like a good cup of coffee. It's just something I do because not writing, as I've found, is so much worse.”
    ― Quentin R. Bufogle
    tags: writer-s-pain, writer-s-philosophy, writer-s-voice, writers-on-writing, writers-quotes, writers-world, writing, writing-process
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  • #5
    “Chocolate is a vegetable. Honest.”
    ― Ashok Banker
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    William Shakespeare
    “Double, double, toil and trouble;
    Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
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    Samuel R. Delany
    “It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind.”
    ― Samuel R. Delany, Equinox
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    Samuel R. Delany
    “The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.”
    ― Samuel R. Delany, Empire Star
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  • #9
    “Mortals cannot perceive me with the physical eye whilst in my pure form unless it is of my choosing, for it would result in fatality, which begs the question of why you are an exception.”
    ― Al Stone, Talisman of El
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  • #10
    “Carpe Diem Ballus. Translation: Seize the Day by the Balls. Before it seizes your's. (Applies to women too.)”
    ― Ashok Banker
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    tags: wisdom
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “silence is the language of god,
    all else is poor translation.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    Wendy Mass
    “Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"
    All the time.”
    ― Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
    tags: flotsam, funny, humor, jeremy-fink, jetsam, keys, lizzy, wendy-mass, what-i-always-think
    2114 likes

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    Bruce Lee
    “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: expectations, individuality, peer-pressure, wisdom
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
    tags: men, women
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    Red Haircrow
    “Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.”
    ― Red Haircrow
    tags: creative-process, creative-thinking, creative-writing, creativity, individuality, life, life-lessons, reality, writers, writers-on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart, writing-process
    214 likes

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    Octavia E. Butler
    “You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.
    That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler
    tags: writing, writing-process
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    J.D. Stroube
    “There are people in the world, who are just wrong, and then there are the masses of population that are right, or at the very least they lie in the veil of between. I on the other hand, do not belong to any group. I don’t exist. It’s not that I don’t have substance; I have a body like everyone else. I can feel the fire when it burns against my skin, the rain when it caresses my face and the breeze as it fingers my hair. I have all the senses that other people do. I am just empty, inside.”
    ― J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness
    tags: breeze, caress, emptiness, empty, exist, fire, horror, people, rain, right, senses, wisdom, wrong
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    David Wellington
    “Vampires, real vampires, didn't nibble on the necks of nubile young virgins. They tore people to pieces and sucked the blood out of the chunks. ”
    ― David Wellington, 99 Coffins
    tags: horror, vampires
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    John Wick
    “It is dark. You cannot see. Only the hint of stars out the broken window. And a voice as old as the Snake from the Garden whispers, 'I will hold your hand.”
    ― John Wick
    tags: horror, writing
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    Robert Bloch
    “Horror is the removal of masks.”
    ― Robert Bloch
    tags: horror, masks
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    Stephen King
    “Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
    ― Stephen King, It
    tags: clown, eddie, fear, grownups, horror, it, monster, pennywise, stephen-king
    485 likes

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    Janis Joplin
    “‎'Don't compromise yourself - you are all you've got.”
    ― Janis Joplin
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    Clive Barker
    “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
    ― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
    tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness
    4280 likes

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    Steven Pressfield
    “The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.”
    ― Steven Pressfield
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    Charles Bukowski
    “writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all”
    ― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems
    tags: writers-block, writing
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    Coco J. Ginger
    “She knew she could never love any man the way she loved a blank sheet of paper that only she could fill.”
    ― Jamie Weise
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  • #30
    Ernest Hemingway
    “In order to write about life first you must live it.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: writing-life
    909 likes



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