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“You'll always lose when you play someone else's game.”
― Eat a Peach
― Eat a Peach
“I was doing something that had become a pattern in my life, and I thought, Well I should go talk to a psychiatrist. When I got into the room, I asked him, 'Do you think that this process could, in any way, damage my creativity?', And he said ´Well, David, I have to be honest; it could´ And I shook his hand and left.”
― Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
― Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
“Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God, I hope not.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
― The Road
― The Road
“Recovering alcoholics talk about needing to hit rock bottom before they are able to climb out. The paradox for the workaholic is that rock bottom is the top of whatever profession they're in.”
― Eat a Peach
― Eat a Peach
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