Mandy
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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.”
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“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
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“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
― Animal Dreams
― Animal Dreams
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