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“The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.”
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“Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: Yourself.”
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“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”
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“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
― Linden Hills
― Linden Hills
Shine & Shadow
— 769 members
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Welcome to Shine & Shadow. We are a group focused on monthly group reads and discussions. We have 3 group reads per month: 1 'Dark' read, 1 'Light' re ...more
Silent Book Club-Zooming Around the World
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This Silent Book Club is where members from all over the world come and bring whatever book they are reading and we read silently for an hour, after t ...more
Virtual Silent Book Group - Literary Fiction by People of Color
— 96 members
— last activity Mar 04, 2023 09:37AM
A Silent Book Club is where members from all over the world come and bring whatever book they are reading and we read silently for an hour, after the ...more
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