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“If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.”
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“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― An Outcast of the Islands
― An Outcast of the Islands
“This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-fly-apart-disintegrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
“Most of the world's problems could be avoided if people just said what they fucking meant.”
― The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
― The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
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