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    Charles Darwin
    “The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”
    ― Charles Darwin
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    Christopher Paolini
    “Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eldest
    tags: inspirational
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    Anita Brookner
    “You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

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    ― Anita Brookner
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    Richard Wright
    “The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
    ― Richard Wright
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: capital-punishment, death-penalty, gandalf, j-r-r-tolkien, lord-of-the-rings
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    Margaret Weis
    “Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it."

    "Are you saying we shouldn't hope?"

    "I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open!”
    ― Margaret Weis
    tags: raistlin-majere, tanis-half-elven
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    Margaret Weis
    “You cannot hide from danger. Death floats on the air, creeps through the window, comes with the handshake of a stranger. If we stop living because we fear death, then we have already died.

    -Raistlin Majere”
    ― Margaret Weis, The Soulforge
    tags: dragonlance, margaret-weis, raistlin-majere, soulforge
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    Margaret Weis
    “If I am to be judged by those who come after me, let me be judged for the truth.”
    ― Margaret Weis, The Soulforge
    tags: dragonlance
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    Dorothy Parker
    “I hate writing, I love having written.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: writing, writing-process
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    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: imagination, inspiration, writing
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: writing
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    Julian Barnes
    “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
    tags: books, life
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    Rebecca Solnit
    “The process of making art is the process of becoming a person with agency, with independent thought, a producer of meaning rather than a consumer of meanings that may be at odds with your soul, your destiny, your humanity, so there’s another kind of success in becoming conscious that matters and that is up to you and nobody else and within your reach.”
    ― Rebecca Solnit
    tags: writing
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
    tags: literature, writing
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
    tags: language, narrative, trust, unspoken, writer
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: authors, good-books, truth, writers
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    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: endings, happy-endings, writing
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    William Zinsser
    “Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.”
    ― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide To Writing Nonfiction
    tags: wisdom, writing
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    William Zinsser
    “Writing is thinking on paper”
    ― William Zinsser
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    William Zinsser
    “Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it’s because it is hard.”
    ― William Knowlton Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
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    William Zinsser
    “Good writing is lean and confident.”
    ― William Knowlton Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
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    Michelle Richmond
    “It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character.”
    ― Michelle Richmond
    tags: character, critique, workshop, writer, writing
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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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    Jodi Picoult
    “You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.”
    ― Jodi Picoult
    tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-process
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor , Wise Blood
    tags: life, place, search
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    Joe Dunthorne
    “I took a photo of us, mid-embrace. When I am old and alone I will remember that I once held something truly beautiful.”
    ― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine
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    Thomas Pynchon
    “Keep cool but care”
    ― Thomas Pynchon, V.
    tags: pynchon, v
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    Alexander Pope
    “How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
    The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
    Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
    Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”
    ― Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard
    tags: innocence
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