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“Write what should not be forgotten.”
― Isabel Allende

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
― Anais Nin

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“He fell off the table like a crab looking for the sea.”
― Charles Bukowski

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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

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

“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

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
― Dylan Thomas

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”
― Paul Valery

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

“Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.”
― Warren Ellis

“When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”
― Neil Gaiman

“People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits