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It was getting on toward evening and the world was shifting to monochrome, the water pale and glassy under a darkening sky, shadows accumulating in the forest.
“Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.”
― Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
― Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
“Act as if you're a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Don't wait for anybody to tell you it's okay.”
― Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
― Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
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“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
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“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
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