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#1

“The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels

tags: brinksmanship, crazy, crisis, insanity

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#2

“Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
― Aristotle

tags: anger

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#3

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness

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#4

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

tags: opportunity, perseverance, wisdom

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#5

“When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.”
― Terry Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation

tags: crazy, sanity, society, world

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#6

“To err is human, to purr is feline.”
― Robert Byrne, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

tags: cats, err, error, feline, human, humor, purr, purring, quotes, robert-byrne

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#7

“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. ”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: freedom, security

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#8

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: history, humor, writing

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#9

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
― Steve Maraboli

tags: destiny, happiness, history, inspirational, let-go, letting-go, life, motivational, moving-on, success

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#10

“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
― Jose Marti

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism

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#11

“Everyone can write a cliche. What's rare is to write them often and unashamedly enough that people quote it as if it's some deep shit.”
― Jimmy Lo

tags: exspirational, hard-core-truth, inspirational, quotations

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#12

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
― Nikola Tesla

tags: energy, frequency, vibration

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#13

“If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.”
― Confucius

tags: kingdom, morals, music

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#14

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance

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#15

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: diplomacy, strategy, victory, war

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#16

“Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
― Woodrow Wilson

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#17

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: brevity, wit

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#18

“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

(Letter 16, 1657)”
― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters

tags: brevity, conciseness, correspondence, humor, letters, pithy, wit, writing

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#19

“Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.”
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt

tags: brevity, etiquette, politeness, sincerity

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#20

“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.”
― George Burns

tags: brevity, humor, religion

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#21

“This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do -- not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad. I figured the shorter the book, the less bullshit."
Stephen King, On Writing”
― Stephen King

tags: brevity, on-writing, quotes-for-writers

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#22

“Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.”
― Louise Brooks

tags: brevity, on-writing, paraphrased

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#24

“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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#25

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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#26

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#27

“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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#28

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#29

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing

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#30

“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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#31

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing

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