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    Shel Silverstein
    “If you are a dreamer come in
    If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
    A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
    If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
    For we have some flax golden tales to spin
    Come in!
    Come in!”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: dreamer, imagination, liar, make-believe, poetry, wisher, wishes
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
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    William Faulkner
    “In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: revision, writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: writing
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    Dorothy Parker
    “If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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    “we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose in our gardens and snip the adverbs only to thread them in our hair. we write with no guarantees, no certainties, no promises of what might come and we do it anyway. this is who we are.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi
    tags: writers, writing-philosophy, writing-process
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: writers, writing-advice
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
    tags: anne-of-green-gables, anne-of-the-island, husband, marriage
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: best-friends, betrayal, boyfriends, break-ups, dating, divorce, family, friends, friendships, girlfriends, lost-love, love, loved-ones, lovers, marriage, moving-on, parents, ponderings, reflection, relationships, romance, senseless, soulmates, true-love, unrequited-love
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    Richard Dawkins
    “Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.”
    ― Richard Dawkins
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    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: friendship, love
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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
    “Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
    "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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    S.E. Hinton
    “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
    ― S.E. Hinton
    tags: friends, friendship
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    Jay McInerney
    “The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
    ― Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages
    tags: family, friendship, humor
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  • #16
    And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
    “And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    E.B. White
    “All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
    ― E.B. White
    tags: writing
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    Thomas Mann
    “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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    Jim Henson
    “There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.”
    ― Jim Henson, Favorite Songs From Jim Henson's Muppets
    tags: friends, friendship
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    Whitney Otto
    “Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.”
    ― Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt
    tags: exes, friendship, love
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    O. Henry
    “No friendship is an accident. ”
    ― O. Henry, Heart of the West
    tags: friendship
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    A.A. Milne
    “I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
    "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: children, parents
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    Penelope Fitzgerald
    “On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.”
    ― Penelope Fitzgerald
    tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-craft, writing-humor
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    Charles Bukowski
    “He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: writing
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    John Updike
    “The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”
    ― John Updike
    tags: humor, new-york-city
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    Elizabeth Hardwick
    “They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.”
    ― Elizabeth Hardwick, Seduction and Betrayal
    tags: f-scott-fitzgerald, fiction, writing, zelda-fitzgerald
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    Sylvia Plath
    “So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
    tags: confidence, loneliness, shyness
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
    tags: writing
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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
    “Beware how you take away hope from another human being”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
    tags: hope
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