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Place: New Poems

by Jorie Graham

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Kudos

by Rachel Cusk

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Alphabetical Diaries

by Sheila Heti (Goodreads Author)

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gracie’s Quotes

“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks

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“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.”
― Octavia Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories

tags: creative-process, habit, inspiration, persistence, writing

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“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
― Samuel Beckett, Murphy

tags: beckett, great-first-lines, murphy, opening-lines

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“Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

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