For all the things we cannot control, we have the Serenity Prayer. But along with praying like it depends on God, we have to work like it depends on us. Generally speaking, we can control when we get up. We can control when we go to bed.
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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― The Fran Lebowitz Reader
― The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
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